ASI Wise &
The Sensory Project
People first. Purpose always.
Real people.Original ideas.Helpful technology.
Yes, we use AI.
And we’re happy to talk about it.
From untangling a sentence to bringing an original drawing to life, technology helps us develop and share our work. The people, relationships and professional judgement behind it are still very much here.
Our starting point
The idea comes first.
The tools come next.
Our original tools and teaching grow from practice, research, audit and co-production with the people we serve. They carry the experience, thinking and conversations that have shaped them over time.
AI can help us develop, adapt and communicate that work. It does not replace the original learning purpose, the people who contributed or the responsibility we hold for what we publish.
We also draw on published research and the work of others. Those contributions still need acknowledgement. Using a digital tool does not make someone else’s work our own.
Show the process, not just the result
An original photograph.
A new way to share the idea.
Our cardboard boxes and tents example begins with a photograph of a sensory space. We used AI to create an adapted teaching image from that source. The original materials and the teaching purpose guide what we make.
The distinction matters: this is a source photograph becoming a teaching resource, not photographic evidence of a newly built room or a treatment outcome.
Useful tools. Human direction.
A few things in our toolkit.
Some help with a full page. Some help with a single sentence. We choose tools for the task, rather than asking one tool to do everything.
A clearer sentence
We use tools such as Grammarly for spelling, punctuation and clearer writing. The aim is to make our meaning easier to follow, not to replace the experience behind it.
A more useful website
AI helps us write and refine website code, with the aim of improving usability and efficiency. The result still needs checking on real screens, with real people in mind.
Another way to see it
We use Canva and AI-assisted design tools to adapt photographs and develop illustrations from original drawings. Details may be changed or removed to support the teaching purpose.
A little playfulness
Those cheerful clay-style characters take more than a quick click. Original teaching, carefully written scripts, detailed instructions and plenty of revision sit behind the finished picture.
There are still original sketches, thoughtful conversations, plenty of revisions and the occasional typo that escapes everyone’s best efforts.
For us, this is also about access
More ways in.
More room to learn.
We are a neurodiverse team. A page full of words is not everyone’s favourite way into a subject. Some of us value visual explanations. Some prefer to listen, read or move between the two. What helps can change with the task and the day.
We use technology to support access in our own work for the same reason we support its thoughtful use with the people we serve: people deserve ways to participate that work for them.
Not every accessibility feature uses AI. No single format works for everyone. Available formats and access periods vary, so please check the details for your course or resource.
Read
Readable fonts, left-aligned text, clearer sections and space around ideas.
Listen
Spoken versions of written sections are being added, offering another way to engage.
See
Visual explanations and teaching images alongside, rather than instead of, meaningful content.
Return
Additional learning tools and extended access periods, with room to revisit and reflect.
Care and responsibility
Helpful technology.
Human responsibility.
AI can get things wrong. Using it does not pass responsibility to the software. We remain responsible for the accuracy, sources, privacy and suitability of what we publish.
Check the meaning.
AI-assisted work needs checking against its original sources and intended purpose. It is not a substitute for professional judgement, research evidence or lived experience.
Teaching illustrations are not clinical assessments, evidence of effectiveness or records of treatment outcomes.
Protect people’s privacy.
We may use specialist image and video tools to remove identifying details. But changing a face alone does not necessarily make someone anonymous. Names, voices and surroundings can also identify people.
Privacy and the suitability of a service need considering before material is uploaded, not only after editing.
Credit the people.
Original contributors, published research and source materials still deserve acknowledgement. Permissions and the conditions attached to source material remain important.
We distinguish adapted teaching images from unchanged photographs wherever that difference could be misunderstood.
Further reading: ICO guidance on effective anonymisation. This explains why removing an obvious identifier is not always enough.
It is reasonable to ask
A few fair questions.
Human-led. Technology-assisted. Made for people.
Questions are welcome.
Curious about how a resource was made? Noticed something that needs correcting? Need a different way to access your learning? Please tell us. Your questions and experience help us keep learning too.
ASI Wise & The Sensory Project · September 2026
This statement explains our use of AI in developing and presenting materials. It sits alongside our privacy notice and the terms for each course or resource.