SenseUp Series 1
The Sensory Systems
This course is delivered by Kerry Evetts, an occupational therapist with over 25 years of experience, with 15 years almost exclusively in sensory integration therapy. Benefit from her hands on experience of working in the paediatric sensory space, extensive training and personal take aways. Kerry shares neuroscience which is easily digestible and applicable to expanding your observational and assessment skills in sensory processing. She uses stories, pictures and videos to help you assimilate new knowledge and use it in your therapy room the very next day.
Feature 1
This training is delivered in an interactive zoom format, over 4 evenings of two hours (8 hours of content).
Feature 2
The sessions are recorded and available on your SenseUp Dashboard for a lifetime. You can access these from your computer or the App.
Feature 3
Kerry utilises stories, pictures and videos to illustrate the sensory systems, neuroscience, assessment and intervention.
Session 1: The Vestibular System
The vestibular system is the main integrating system of the senses, it has the most connections in the brain and Dr A.Jean Ayres once famously said that unless one has a good relationship with gravity from birth no other relationships will be secure.
Session 2: The Proprioception and Tactile Systems (Somatosensation)
The proprioception sense is our universal calming sense, with descending pathways that help inhibit an over-active symathetic nervous system. Learn about how this happens physiologically, and how you can maximise active proprioception to recruit more units of proprioception.
Our skin covers our entire body making the tactile system our largest sensory organ. REceptors are not evenly distributed though, and where there is a high density of receptors in a small area, reflects a high skill area but also an area more likely to be impacted by tactile sensitivities. Eg hands, mouth
Session 3: The Auditory and Visual Senses
The Auditory Sense is very closely linked with the vestibular and vision senses, and collectively these 3 senses, are responsible for our spatial awareness, smooth navigation through space and ability to interact within the ever changing demands of our environments.
Session 4: Interoception and Gustatory/Olfactory Senses
Interoception, our 8th sense, our sense of our body state and emotional state. Without a good understanding of our internal state we are unable to learn to self regulate. In fact, we depend on interoception for basic survival.
Smell and Taste are our most primitive of our senses and are protective senses - designed to detect poison/danger and guide us with whats safe to consume and whats not.
Series 1: The Sensory Systems
Buy for the early bird price of $595 until midnight on the 13th April 2023.
