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LIVE 21 July 2026. 18.30 AESTSensory Contributions to Sleep
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The Masterclass that looks beyond bedtime routines and sleep hygiene. Helping paediatric OTs understand sleep through sensory processing, nervous system regulation and occupational participation.
Why the strategies families are already trying might not be enough, and what the nervous system needs instead.
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Presented by Kerry Evetts M.OT, Occupational Therapist and Founder of SenseUp Training.
Live via Zoom • Monday 21 July 2026 • 6:30pm AEST • 60 min LIVE + 30min Q&AÂ
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 🕒 60-minute masterclass plus live Q&A  📽️ 30-day replay access in your portalÂ
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🏅 Certificate of Attendance for 1 PD / CPD / CE hour  🛡️Secure checkout.
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Sleep is often where a child's complexity becomes most visible. It is where everything that has been held together during the day finally shows up.
Families come to you about sleep. But within minutes you are hearing about school refusal, emotional meltdowns after school, a marriage under strain, or a sibling who cannot sleep because their brother is up every night.
You can see sensory processing differences. You can see regulation challenges. You can see family stress rippling through every bedtime interaction. But no single explanation quite captures what you are actually seeing. A clinical reasoning masterclass for the moments when you know there is more going on than bedtime behaviour, but you need a framework that can hold the whole child.
This is for you if...
What this masterclass covers
A neuroscience-informed, occupation-centred framework grounded in the SenseUp Model for understanding, assessing and addressing paediatric sleep difficulties.
The nervous system story
Why sleep onset requires felt safety, and why a child in sympathetic activation cannot simply switch off.
The sensory sleep map
How the eight sensory systems can shape sleep preparation, sleep onset and sleep maintenance, including interoception.
The trauma-informed lens
How to consider safety, vigilance and co-regulation without stepping outside OT scope.
The participation cost
How sleep difficulties affect school, family wellbeing, bedtime co-occupation and everyday function.
Case-Based Learning
Meet Noah, the clinical thread for this masterclass.
Noah is a composite teaching case representing the kind of sleep presentation many paediatric OTs recognise: a bright child whose bedtime difficulty does not fully make sense when viewed through routine or behaviour alone.
During the masterclass, Kerry uses Noah's story to show how sensory processing, autonomic state, family stress and participation can be held together in one clearer clinical picture.
Registration for the MasterclassWhy this matters clinically
The children on paediatric OT caseloads are often the children for whom sleep is hardest.
50-80%
of autistic children experience significant sleep difficulties
25-50%
of children with ADHD experience sleep onset delay, restlessness or disrupted sleep
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sensory systems considered through the SenseUp sleep assessment map
The SenseUp framework for sleep
Not three separate assessments. One integrated clinical picture that connects state, sensory processing, trauma-informed safety and occupational participation.
Polyvagal Theory
Autonomic state as your clinical compass in the bedtime window.
Sensory Integration
How tactile, auditory, visual, proprioceptive, vestibular, interoceptive, olfactory and gustatory systems influence sleep.
Trauma-informed lens
Sleep as a vulnerable state requiring felt safety, not simply compliance.
Occupational participation
Connecting every strategy back to what sleep is costing the child and family.
By the end of this masterclass, you will be able to...
  ✓  Explain why sleep is an occupation and why that framing changes OT assessment and intervention.
 ✓  Identify autonomic state indicators in the bedtime window using Polyvagal Theory as a clinical compass.
 ✓  Recognise sensory contributions to sleep onset and maintenance across eight sensory systems.
 ✓  Apply a trauma-informed lens to sleep assessment without overstepping into psychology.
 ✓  Reason through a complex clinical case using the SenseUp Model pillars simultaneously.
 ✓ Communicate sleep recommendations to families using neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based language.
Ready to think differently about sleep?
Register for the live masterclass and start building a clearer clinical picture for children like Noah.
Register now $97Â
The SenseUp Model™
integrates current research across neuroscience, sensory processing (all seven systems), trauma-informed care, and occupational participation into one systematic approach for challenges. This isn't about choosing between therapy approaches or sensory strategies - it's about seeing how nervous system safety creates the foundation for everything else.
When you understand how these pieces connect, clinical reasoning becomes clearer and intervention planning honours what the child's body actually needs.
Masterclass Registration
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Questions You Might Have
I've done sensory training before. How is this different?
How do I access the recording after the masterclass?
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Is this suitable for new graduates or experienced OTs?
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Meet Kerry Evetts
Bringing OTs back to the science so families get the expert support they deserve.
Kerry has been an occupational therapist for over 27 years. She has sat across from hundreds of families who were exhausted, confused, and let down by systems that kept handing them information without understanding.
Sleep was one of the conversations where Kerry knew standard advice was not going to be enough. Something more was needed: the nervous system story, the sensory processing story, and what safety actually means for a child at 9pm when the house goes quiet.
This masterclass is the clinical reasoning process, translated into a practical session for paediatric OTs.
Sharing 28+ Years of Clinical Experience. Evidence-based Research. Practical. Immediately applicable. Start using what you learn the very next day!
Continue the SenseUp Journey...
If this masterclass makes the pieces click, the SenseUp Approach Course is the next step.
The Sleep Masterclass explores one occupation. The SenseUp Approach Course LITE builds the same clinical reasoning framework across complex paediatric presentations, so the thinking travels into your whole caseload.
This is for you if you want more than strategy lists.
This is for you if you want clearer clinical reasoning across complex cases.
This is for you if you want to connect sensory processing, regulation, trauma-informed practice and participation.
Your SenseUp Journey
We do the Development Planning and Evidence-Based Research, so that you don't have to!
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