Online sensory workshop for parents and carers

This online resource is ideal for parents/carers looking for practical advice and strategies to address common sensory processing difficulties, linked to everyday activities, such as dressing, eating, hair washing, sleeping etc. and how to manage a child who is over or under sensitive to sensory input. 

What does it cover?

The focus of the course is understanding what sensory processing is and how the sensory systems impact on behaviour and everyday activities. 

How do I access it?

This online course is accessed by you sending an email to the workshop administrator to request that you are enrolled on the training. Please email childrensot.icps@wsh.nhs.uk putting "Sensory Workshop" in the title line.  We need your child’s name, date of birth and NHS number – the latter can be found on any letters/reports that you have had about your child from health professionals.

Parents/carers will be contacted via email, so you must have access to an email account.  Once enrolled and supplied with your log in details, the course will only be accessible for a limited period of time.

You will be able to access our presentation, which is a mixture of videos and quizzes.  You will also have access to a number of resources that you can print off and keep.

It is split into small manageable chunks, and you can view these at a time convenient to you.

What some of our previous parents/carers have said about the course

• "I found this workshop really useful. It has made me understand more about my son's behaviours and how to help manage them."

• "The additional info sheets are very useful."

• "Found the topics covered helped me understand further how my child feels and answers some of the questions I didn't know I needed to ask."

• "We liked that strategies were given and examples of products that could help to support were given, the additional information sheets about specific issues were really useful. Thank you."

• "Very informative, huge volume of additional resources signposted and included hoping these will be useful sources of reference going forward."

To gain the best possible experience from this online resource, it is recommended that it is viewed via a laptop or tablet.

If you do not have access to either of these, it can still be viewed via a smartphone, but the view will be restricted due to the smaller screen.