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Assessments

• Developmental assessments helpful for Early Years.

• Sensory Processing Assessments

• Detailed dyspraxia and sensory processing assessment called the EASI (Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration)

• EHCP assessments

• Handwriting Assessments with the view of treatment or as part of 11+ or GCSE access arrangements. 

Therapy Provision

We offer a comprehensive range of therapy services designed to help children thrive:  Here is a video that parents may want to watch. 

Motor Skills 

Fine Motor Development: Building dexterity and shoulder strength for independence in self-care, food preparation, cutting, handwriting, and drawing. 

Gross Motor Development: Improving balance, postural control, and coordination for bilateral tasks. 

Motor Planning: Enhancing sequencing skills for academic and daily tasks using a cognitive problem-solving approach and Sensory Integration techniques. 

Sensory Integration 

• Supporting children to tolerate sensory experiences (movement, textures, noise, clothing, food, using SOS Approach to Feeding) 

• Reducing sensory overwhelm and promoting regulation through therapeutic music and tailored sensory input in class, outside of class using the journey to school and at home. 

• Providing rewarding sensory experiences that some children need or crave. 

• Developing visual perceptual skills for shape recognition, letter formation, and non-verbal reasoning. 

Regulation Strategies 

• The Alert Program Understanding arousal levels and tools .  

• Zones of Regulation: Linking emotional responses to practical thinking, sensory and breathing strategies

We can deliver or provide training in how to deliver the Interoception Curriculum by Kelly Mahler, a 25-week program that helps children tune into sensory and internal signals such as feedback from the environment, their own breathing, skin, hunger, bowel and emotional states. This curriculum is ideal for TA’s to integrate into ELSA or social-emotional groups, fostering mindfulness and self-regulation through simple, accessible activities. 

Play Skills 

Using DIRFloortime principles to foster interaction, participation, and co-regulation this enables turn-taking and shared problem-solving. 

Self-Care 

From dressing to food preparation, including food play to increase tolerance of varied textures. 

Handwriting 

Supporting pre-writing and mark-making through to age-appropriate handwriting demands. 

Applying the 8 S Factors and 4 P’s based on NHA recommendations. 

Parenting groups

Sensory Parenting for Sensory Children– now running its fourth successful group, with plans for school-based sessions. 

New hybrid course starting in January 2026. Run over two Saturdays (in-person) and two, online, evenings to allow easier access for parents and carers.  Details: sensory parenting for sensory children

Our future hope is to collaborate with schools and offer the course within the school setting on Friday mornings.  

In-service Training

We are offering Inset and Twilight training sessions, click for more detail.

Training Topics Include: 

• Handwriting Development – Strategies for all types of difficulties 

• Sensory Processing and Interoception – Understanding and supporting sensory needs 

• Supporting Children with Autism – From a sensory perspective 

• Supporting Children with ADHD – From a sensory perspective 

• *New*  How to support basic interaction and turn-taking using the DIRfloortime principles, useful for with limited language, and Autism.

Sensory issues and eating habits at nursery/school and home. Training can be provided for parents and teachers