2023
ISIC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sensory integration across the lifespan, adult mental health, co-production and the development of Sensory Ladders, Spiders and Grids.
Conference Archive
The Sensory Project · Posters, presentations and shared learning
Ideas shared. Practice remembered. Learning carried forward.
A growing record of how ASI Wise, The Sensory Project and our collaborators have shared practice, research questions, service development and co-produced resources across local, national and international events.
Some early records are concise because the original materials were published elsewhere or pre-date the present website. Each entry links to the clearest surviving page, resource or history note currently available.
Recent archive
2023–2020
These pages trace international reconnection after the pandemic, open-access learning, global translation and the continued development of sensory integration across adult and community practice.
2022
ISIC Los Angeles, United States
A visual and professional history connecting early assessment development, SIPT, EASI, contemporary psychometrics and fidelity.
2022
RCOT Annual Conference
The Sensory Ladders Global Translation Project was shared as an open, collaborative project powered by infectious generosity.
2021
RCOT Annual Conference
Kath Smith presented Sensory Ladders, and free open-access learning was launched for anyone, anywhere, at any time.
2021
OTASA Annual Conference, South Africa
Another opportunity to share Sensory Ladders internationally and connect the work with Parenting Through the Senses.
2020
Romanian Occupational Therapy Conference
Ros Urwin and Kath Smith presented as international collaboration continued during a year of rapid change in professional learning.
2020
Sensory Integration and Mental Health, Ireland
Kath Smith reflected on a practice journey begun in 1998 and the continuing development of sensory integration beyond childhood.
Earlier collections
2018–2015
These events capture an important period in global collaboration, the formal development of international education standards and the sharing of sensory integration beyond its better-known childhood context.
Cape Town · 2018
International Sensory Integration Congress
Adult mental health, data-driven decision making, EASI international normative data collection and the formal establishment of the ICE-ASI Executive.
Read the Cape Town record
United Kingdom · 2015
National Autistic Society Professionals Conference
Kath Smith reviewed evidence for sensory integration and Ayres Sensory Integration, connecting sensory experience with participation and everyday life.
View the conference pageInternational collaboration
A connected history, 2010–2018
Directors Kath Smith and Ros Urwin contributed to international meetings and forums that helped establish shared standards for education in Ayres Sensory Integration.
2018ISIC · Cape Town
2017ESIC · Austria
2015ESIC · United Kingdom
2014ESIC · Finland
2012R2K · Los Angeles
2011ESIC · Albufeira, Portugal
2010R2K · Los Angeles
Across yearsResearch, education and practice forums
Earlier roots
Autism and the Senses
By 2007, work with the National Autistic Society had helped create an early joint conference focused on autism and the senses. It formed part of a wider effort to bring sensory understanding into family, community and professional learning.