ASI Wise & The Sensory Project
Sensory integration training in the UK & Ireland
From everyday sensory understanding to specialist Ayres’ Sensory Integration education. Learning, resources and support for participation across the lifespan.
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Start with what matters to you. Explore practical learning for everyday life, or develop specialist assessment and intervention skills.
Everyday understanding & CPD
Explore Seeing Differently and Click and Connect learning for people supporting participation in education, health, care and everyday life.
A distinct learning offer. Not a replacement for specialist ASI assessment and intervention education.
Explore shorter learning
Specialist practice
Develop Ayres’ Sensory Integration knowledge and practice through ASI1, ASI2 and ASI3, with CLASI learning within the pathway.
For eligible therapists. Explore the option to add postgraduate credit later, subject to requirements.
Explore the Certificate
Postgraduate study
Explore the sensory integration pathway with Ulster University, combining practice-focused learning with postgraduate assignments and research.
For eligible therapists. Check entry, academic progression and current fees before applying.
Explore the MSc route
Already SIPT trained? Explore EASI conversion and check the entry requirements.
Certificate to MSc progression? See how the routes connect.
The Learning Route page provides the text comparison, current eligibility and progression information.
Free resources. Made with people.
Personal tools. Shared understanding. Created together.
Explore body states, sensory patterns and what supports participation. A Sensory Ladder is shaped with the person, in their own words, images and ways of communicating.
Sensory First
Understand the person. Notice the context. Explore what makes participation possible.
We bring research, practice and lived experience into conversation. Through co-production, we explore the person, environment, activity and relational response, rather than expecting everyone to experience the world in the same way.
New to the ideas? Explore sensory integration and sensory processing.
Explore Sensory Spiders™ and personalise a Sensory Ladder® around what matters to the person.
Learning together, changing everyday practice
Connect learning with the people, places and everyday activities your team supports.
Explore workforce sensory awareness learning and discuss a starting point that fits your roles, service and priorities.
Explore organisational learningExplore sensory integration in schools, with a focus on understanding sensory experience and supporting participation in learning.
Explore sensory learning for schoolsPlanning learning across different roles? Talk with our team about a shared starting point.
Evidence, reflection & everyday practice
Explore what research finds, where uncertainty remains and what the ideas may mean for everyday participation.
Read our news and reflections, or meet the people behind our learning and resources.
A little clarity before you begin
Clear information to help you find a useful starting point.
Ask our teamSensory integration describes how the nervous system brings sensory information together to help us make sense of experience and organise action. Our learning connects this understanding with participation in everyday life. Read about sensory integration and sensory processing.
No. Free Sensory Ladders® learning and a range of shorter learning opportunities are available beyond therapy roles. The specialist Certificate and MSc routes have professional and academic entry requirements. Compare the learning routes.
The routes share the ASI1–ASI3 practice-focused core. The MSc pathway includes postgraduate assignments and further academic study. Adding credit later depends on the relevant entry and progression requirements. Read the route comparison.
Yes. Sensory Ladders® resources and the English introductory learning are free to access. You do not need a diagnosis or professional qualification. The online learning requires an account. Explore the free resources.
Explore the organisational sensory awareness offer, then talk with us about your roles, setting and priorities. Read about organisational learning.
A community of practice. Learning together.
Bring your questions, share your experience and stay connected as learning becomes part of everyday practice.
Explore our Communities of Practice, or contact the team for help finding a learning route or resource.
Doing. Being. Becoming. Belonging.
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World Mental Health Day · 10 October 2026 Sensory wellbeing is part of mental wellbeing. Mental health is shaped by far more than thoughts and emotions. Our wellbeing is also…
October 2026 What’s new at Sensory Project? You may have noticed that things are looking a little different at ASI Wise and Sensory Project. We are currently in an exciting…
Research into practice What might brain imaging help us understand about meaningful activity, and how carefully should we translate research into practice? Research by Umm E Habiba and colleagues (2026).Summary…
From the team · Exploring Sensory Choices Checklist™ v2 Sensory choices are for all of us. After a very busy morning, a group of Band 6 colleagues made time to…
Research for Practice · PEAR TREE™ Lens Warmth, Pressure and Relationship What new neuroscience looks like through the PEAR TREE™ Lens A new 2026 neuroscience study asks a fascinating question:…
Research for practice | Co-production | Participation From clinical models to a lens we can hold together A new paper about co-designing mental health guidance with neurodivergent young people and…
Before self-regulation, there is relationship: what new interoception research asks us to notice from the womb to NICU and perinatal mental health. A new 2026 paper in Scientific Reports has…
A stomach rumble seems straightforward. Your stomach rumbles. You feel hungry. You eat. Or perhaps you walk past a bakery and suddenly want something you had not been thinking about….
A newly published South African study invites us to look more carefully at what we mean when we say that a child has “sensory difficulties”. Perhaps more importantly, it reminds…
Please don’t ignore movement Around 1 in 9 working-age adults with learning disability and mental health difficulties experienced a fall or fracture requiring emergency or hospital care Falls prevention in…
The Sensory Project · Click & Connect · New workshop series Seeing Differently Sensory Integration, Participation & Wellbeing Our new three-part workshop series is the successor to The Sensory Project’s…
In ASI2, we returned to the body. Not as a theory alone, not as a checklist, but as a lived experience. We explore how movement and sensory input form the…
The International Day of Yoga is celebrated today, 21st June, linked to the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, a day that…
News & reflections
New research, practice stories and community conversations, written to help you connect ideas with everyday participation.
Understanding · Sensory Experiences · Participation OCD Awareness Week This week, we are immersed in OCD Awareness Week. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is often misunderstood as a…
World Mental Health Day · 10 October 2026 Sensory wellbeing is part of mental wellbeing. Mental health is shaped by far more than thoughts and emotions.…
October 2026 What’s new at Sensory Project? You may have noticed that things are looking a little different at ASI Wise and Sensory Project. We are…
Research into practice What might brain imaging help us understand about meaningful activity, and how carefully should we translate research into practice? Research by Umm E…
From the team · Exploring Sensory Choices Checklist™ v2 Sensory choices are for all of us. After a very busy morning, a group of Band 6…
Research for Practice · PEAR TREE™ Lens Warmth, Pressure and Relationship What new neuroscience looks like through the PEAR TREE™ Lens A new 2026 neuroscience study…
Research for practice | Co-production | Participation From clinical models to a lens we can hold together A new paper about co-designing mental health guidance with…
Before self-regulation, there is relationship: what new interoception research asks us to notice from the womb to NICU and perinatal mental health. A new 2026 paper…
A stomach rumble seems straightforward. Your stomach rumbles. You feel hungry. You eat. Or perhaps you walk past a bakery and suddenly want something you had…
A newly published South African study invites us to look more carefully at what we mean when we say that a child has “sensory difficulties”. Perhaps…
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