A grounded workshop for AHP colleagues working in real school environments, focusing on how to support participation when there is no dedicated clinic space.
Practical sensory integration informed work in classrooms, halls, corridors, playgrounds, and outdoor spaces.
This workshop responds directly to one of the strongest needs raised across the planning conversations. It focuses on how therapists and wider AHP colleagues can work meaningfully in ordinary school spaces when there is no dedicated clinic, limited equipment, little privacy, and constant negotiation around time and access. It supports practical, creative, and ethically grounded thinking about what can be done in the spaces schools actually have.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- identify challenges and opportunities for sensory integration-informed work in ordinary school spaces
- suggest practical ways to use classrooms, corridors, halls, playgrounds, and outdoor spaces more intentionally
- discuss how to adapt ideas for settings with limited time, space, and equipment
- reflect on what is realistic and professionally sound within their own context
- take away at least one practical idea that could be trialled in an existing school environment
Participants will learn it through examples from real school environments, discuss it with peers in similar settings, apply it to their own spaces, reflect on constraints and possibilities, and take it back into practice with realistic next steps.