A workshop focused on creating clearer, kinder, and more useful sensory language across home, school, and professional systems.
Build clearer, more joined up sensory language that schools, families, and professionals can use together.
This workshop supports participants to build clearer, kinder, and more useful sensory language across home, school, and professional systems. It responds to repeated concerns about misunderstanding, inconsistent terminology, and poor shared understanding of AHP roles and sensory integration. The focus is on language that helps people think together, rather than talk past one another, and that supports participation, planning, and collaboration.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- explain why shared sensory language matters in school communities
- identify wording that supports understanding rather than blame or confusion
- discuss how to adapt sensory language for teachers, families, and support staff
- reflect on where current language may be creating confusion or mismatch
- take away wording they can use more confidently in meetings, reports, or discussion
Participants will learn it through examples of school language in use, discuss it with peers from similar services, apply it to everyday conversations and reports, reflect on where language may be creating barriers, and take it back into practice through clearer communication.