A practical introductory workshop for AHP colleagues in school services, exploring how sensory integration shapes participation across learning, play, relationships, routines, and access to the curriculum.
A practical introduction to participation-focused sensory integration in school life.
This opening workshop sets the tone for the whole series. It places sensory integration within the everyday business of school life, not as an added extra, but as something that shapes participation, belonging, movement, play, emotional safety, attention, and access to learning. It helps participants move beyond strategy-led thinking towards participation-led reasoning that is easier to explain in schools and more useful in reports, planning, and collaborative work.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- describe how sensory integration can influence participation across the school day
- identify links between sensory integration, praxis, relationships, and access to learning
- discuss participation-based examples from their own school contexts
- reflect on how participation-focused language may strengthen communication with schools and families
- identify one way to shift from strategy-led thinking to participation-led reasoning in practice
Participants will learn it through focused teaching, discuss it in tutor groups, apply it to real school examples, reflect on what it means for their own role, and take it back into practice through participation-focused thinking.