Online Live Workshop 
9 September 2026 
Description
This workshop explores how sensory and developmental history can deepen school based assessment and formulation. It supports participants to move beyond collecting background information and instead use history to understand current strengths, patterns, emotional safety, routines, and participation challenges in more meaningful ways.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- explain how sensory history can strengthen school-based assessment and formulation
- identify meaningful themes within developmental, sensory, and functional history
- discuss how history links to present-day school participation and unmet need
- reflect on how history taking is currently used in their own work
- leave better able to use AASH information to enrich reasoning rather than simply collect facts
Participants will learn it through teaching on sensory and developmental history, discuss it in tutor groups, apply it to school-based reasoning, reflect on how they currently use background information, and take it back into practice through deeper formulation.
We know that school-based practice can look very different depending on your role, setting, and service model. Our small tutor groups are matched, as far as possible, by professional and practice context, for example, mainstream schools, specialist schools, visiting services, or integrated school-based roles. This helps OT, PT, SLT and wider AHP colleagues explore ideas in ways that feel relevant, supportive, and easier to take back into everyday practice.
Learn it. Discuss it. Apply it. Reflect on it. Take it back into practice.
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