Online Live Workshop 
23 June 2026 
Description
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.
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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