At ASI Wise, we are committed to ensuring that our training is comprehensive but also transferable and portable across different clinical settings, populations, and global practice environments. Occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy are dynamic professions, with practitioners frequently moving between physical and mental health settings, working across the lifespan, and adapting to system-wide changes such as redeployment within the NHS—as seen during COVID-19.
Why Mastery of the EASI is Important
Learning the Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI) is crucial because it goes beyond being just an assessment tool—it provides a deep understanding of the constructs and building blocks of function.
Why Learning the EASI Matters:
- Foundational Knowledge of Sensory Integration
The EASI is based on the core principles of Ayres Sensory Integration (ASI®), helping therapists understand how sensory processing underpins function. It allows practitioners to recognise how sensory challenges impact participation in everyday life. - A Global Standard for Sensory Integration Assessment
Unlike previous tools, the EASI provides a standardised, internationally normed approach to assessing sensory perception and praxis, ensuring consistent, evidence-based practice worldwide. - More Than Just an Assessment – A Framework for Understanding
The EASI isn’t just about testing—it deepens therapists’ understanding of the neurobiological foundations of sensory integration. By engaging with the EASI, therapists develop a greater awareness of sensory processing, discrimination, praxis and reactivity—all of which are essential to understanding participation, learning, and well-being. - Enhances Clinical Reasoning and Intervention Planning
Learning the EASI strengthens a therapist’s ability to analyse assessment data and apply it to individualised intervention planning, ensuring therapy targets the root cause of challenges, not just symptoms. - Empowers Therapists to Advocate for Sensory Integration
A solid grasp of the EASI helps clinicians explain the importance of sensory integration to individuals, families, and professionals across disciplines, bridging the gap between sensory theory and real-life functional challenges. - Helps towards demonstrating practice in line with Fidelity to Ayres Sensory Integration (ASI®)
Using the EASI aligns with fidelity measures for ASI, ensuring interventions are accurate, effective, and grounded in neuroscience, rather than being diluted into generic sensory-based strategies. - A Step Towards Advancing the Field
The EASI is part of a global initiative to expand the evidence base of ASI, making participation in its learning and application an investment in the future of sensory integration practice.
Ultimately, learning the EASI is not just about using an assessment—it’s about understanding the building blocks of function, refining clinical reasoning, and strengthening the profession’s ability to support meaningful participation and engagement in life.
Here is an example of the rich array of tools therapists on our programme may use and learn to integrate within their practice. This example is from mental health services, with tools to choose from for clients aged 0 to 100. Your clinical reasoning at the point of referral will help support your decision-making about the choice of tool.
A Qualification That Moves With You
The ability to adapt and apply learned skills across settings is a core part of professional OT, PT and SLT practice. With the increasing globalisation of healthcare and the demand for sensory integration expertise worldwide, your learning with ASI Wise ensures that therapists are competent within one niche area and equipped for multidisciplinary, multi-setting practice.
This is why full engagement in all aspects of the programme, including the EASI, is essential. Therapists undertaking our training via the modular programme are doing so on an internationally respected learning programme, ensuring their skills remain highly relevant and applicable, whether working in the UK NHS, private practice, or international healthcare systems.
For students facing challenges in accessing suitable clients to complete EASI practice, our tutor team is available to support alternative solutions – ensuring that every therapist can achieve proficiency and confidently integrate these skills into their practice.
Ultimately, completing this learning with ASI Wise ensures therapists are fully prepared to deliver high-quality, evidence-based sensory integration interventions -anywhere in the world, across any clinical setting, and throughout a person’s lifespan.