Progress is inconsistent. What helps one day may not help the next. A child may organise beautifully in therapy and still struggle to access the same capacity in another setting.
Stand-Alone Masterclass · On-Demand Replay | For OTs and AHPs
The clinical tension
The strategy works. Then it doesn't.
You may be seeing moments of regulation, engagement and organisation, but the gains are not always consistent and carryover into everyday function can remain limited.
What if this is not a lack of sensory knowledge, but a gap in how nervous system state, lived experience, sensory processing and real-world participation are being connected?
What this Masterclass will shift
Move beyond asking whether the strategy worked.
Build a clearer clinical explanation for why a strategy may appear inconsistent, why bottom-up gains do not automatically translate into function, and what needs to shift for more reliable carryover.
Strategy inconsistency
Explore why sensory strategies may help in one moment, context or relationship and appear to stop working in another.
Nervous system state
Understand how autonomic state can influence access to regulation, engagement, organisation and participation.
Bottom-up and top-down
Consider why neither bottom-up nor top-down reasoning alone tells the whole story, and what the 2025 evidence means clinically.
Trauma and sensory processing
Explore six findings from the 2024 scoping review on childhood trauma, sensory processing and motor planning.
Real-world transfer
Connect what happens in the therapy session to the environments, relationships and occupations where function actually needs to occur.
Practical therapy nuggets
Take away the body check-in and the integration question to use in your next session.
Honest reflection
Think of one child.
A child with a complex presentation. A long referral. Several diagnoses. Interventions that have not quite landed. The child who leaves you wondering whether you have what they need.
Not another bag of tricks
This Masterclass is not built around adding more strategies to an already long list.
Deeper clinical reasoning
It is about understanding what may be happening inside the child when the strategies stop landing.
Your role as an OT
Explore what sits within your scope when the presentation includes sensory, motor, nervous system and trauma-related complexity.
Real-world function
Keep participation and everyday outcomes at the centre of the reasoning process.
What you'll leave with
Evidence, a framework and two tools you can use immediately.
Sharing 28+ years of clinical experience with evidence-based research and practical application you can take into your next working day.
Understand the clinical implications of recent evidence rather than simply collecting research findings.
Use a practical, evidence-grounded framework to organise complex presentations, including children with trauma exposure.
A practical therapy nugget designed to help bring the child's internal experience into the clinical reasoning process.
A second practical prompt to help connect what happens in therapy to meaningful everyday participation.
The SenseUp Model™
Seeing how the pieces connect changes the clinical question.
The SenseUp Model™ integrates current research across neuroscience, sensory processing, trauma-informed care and occupational participation into one systematic approach for complex paediatric presentations.
This is not about choosing between therapy approaches or sensory strategies. It is about understanding how nervous system safety can influence the foundation on which intervention is built.
When you understand how the pieces connect, clinical reasoning becomes clearer.
Intervention planning can then better honour what the child's body actually needs and what participation requires in everyday life.
Who is this for?
For the paediatric OT who has ever thought, “I know the strategies. Why are they not translating?”
This Masterclass is designed for paediatric occupational therapists supporting children with complex presentations where regulation, sensory processing, motor planning, trauma history, context and participation may all be interacting.
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Set aside 60 minutes to watch, reflect and connect the evidence back to your caseload. Your replay remains available for 60 days from purchase.
Stand-alone Masterclass
On-Demand Replay · Why Sensory Strategies Stop Working
Available now through your SenseUp Portal
60-minute Masterclass
60-day replay access
Workbook included
Certificate of Attendance · 1 PD point where applicable
- 60-minute on-demand Masterclass replay
- Downloadable workbook
- Recent trauma and sensory processing research translated into paediatric OT reasoning
- SenseUp Model 360™ framework for complex presentations
- The body check-in and integration question
- Certificate of Attendance for 1 PD point where applicable
- 60-day replay access from purchase date
Meet Kerry Evetts
Nearly three decades translating science into real-world paediatric OT practice.
Kerry's work is driven by a commitment to bringing occupational therapists back to the science so families receive expert, evidence-informed support that still makes sense in real clinical practice.
She translates complex neuroscience and research into clinical frameworks that can be used when the presentation is messy, the parent is looking for answers and the usual strategy list is no longer enough.
“I do the research so you don't have to. When you understand the neuroscience, it becomes so much easier to understand the child's behaviours.”
Questions you might have
Before you purchase
The focus is not sensory processing in isolation. The Masterclass connects nervous system regulation, lived experience, trauma-informed reasoning and occupational participation so you can think differently about why the same strategy may not produce the same functional outcome across contexts.
Both. New graduates gain a structured framework for complex reasoning. Experienced OTs can use the session to integrate newer evidence with what they already know from practice.
Your replay access runs for 60 days from your purchase date. Your general SenseUp account login may remain active after access to this specific product expires.
Watch the Masterclass and complete the feedback form available in your portal. Your Certificate of Attendance can then be issued for 1 PD point where applicable. Please ensure your first name and surname are correct in your account.
After purchase, use your SenseUp Portal login to access the recording and workbook. Your confirmation and access details are sent to the email address used at checkout.
Email [email protected] and include as much detail as possible, including screenshots where helpful.
Ready when you are
When the strategies stop landing, go back to the clinical reasoning.
Watch the Masterclass now and use the next 60 days to revisit the evidence, workbook and practical tools as you connect the learning back to your caseload.