Like you, our priority is to help children stay in class, learn alongside their peers and have a happy educational experience.

Students with sensory processing differences often face barriers to accessing the early years and school curricula. They risk reduced educational attainment, school refusal, poor emotional well-being and school placement breakdown.

By understanding a student's unique sensory preferences profile, you can make environmental adaptations, adapt tasks and provide support through appropriate sensory strategies to remove these barriers. This will improve educational outcomes and the overall well-being of students.

Who is the Sensory Inclusive Schools service for?

The Sensory Inclusive Schools service is available to education settings (early years settings, primary schools, secondary schools, FE colleges and universities), both mainstream and special education settings. It is also ideal for international schools.

Our training and support packages are ideal for Teachers, Teaching Assistants, School Leaders, Early Career Teachers and all support staff.

What are the benefits of working with Sensory Inclusive Schools?

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Teacher, Teaching Assistant and Support Staff benefits:

  • By participating in our Peer Support Sessions and expert-led courses, you will gain practical strategies to create a more inclusive and supportive learning environment for students with sensory processing differences.

  • The Community of Learning forum provides you with opportunities to share experiences, challenges, and best practices with peers, enabling you to build professional relationships and broaden your support network.

  • You can feel reassured that you can rapidly seek evidence-based answers and ideas from experts and peers, both in the Community of Learning forum and the Peer Support Drop-In Sessions.

  • You can confidently use our evidence-based, downloadable resources and even request the development of new resources as appropriate.

  • A better understanding of sensory needs will enable you to consider your own sensory profile as well as that of your students.
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Are you a teacher or teaching assistant looking for a clear and straightforward overview of sensory processing and integration? Access our webinar and gain a deeper understanding of how sensory integration affects students, how to identify and support sensory processing differences.

Students Benefits

  • Students will enjoy a more supportive and inclusive educational environment that accommodates their unique needs.

  • Students and their families will benefit from a better understanding of their sensory needs.

  • Students will experience a better opportunity to thrive and excel academically and socially within school.

  • Students can be supported by their school faster with Sensory Inclusive Schools rather than joining long waiting lists.

School Leaders Benefits

  • Enhanced Staff Learning and Development: Resulting in more effective support for students, with a potential secondary effect of reducing exclusions.

  • Inclusive Educational Environment: Creates a more inclusive and accommodating environment benefiting all students.

  • Improved Reputation: Appeals to parents seeking schools with a strong commitment to inclusivity.

  • Early Identification and Support: Schools can identify and meet needs at SEN support level, preventing escalation to specialist resources.

  • Timely Support: Fast support when needed, avoiding waiting for therapy waiting lists.

  • Assessment Cycles: Provides support and evidence for completing "assess, plan, do, review" cycles before escalation to statutory assessment.

  • Financial Affordability: Can be funded from delegated funds or high block needs funding.

  • Alignment with SEND Reforms: Contributes to meeting SEND reforms and aligns with the SEND Green Paper, emphasising timely and tailored support for students.
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Local Education Authorities Benefits

  • The Sensory Inclusive School packages can be available on a Local Education Authority-wide licence so schools can cluster together and be supported in their own bespoke Community of Learning forum. This will support cross-school working and sharing of local good practice.

  • Partnership with a trusted, world-leading education provider, SIE, creates confident recommendations for schools to spend delegated funds or high needs funding to support at-risk students. 

  • LA and SIE partnership demonstrates how statutory services are partnering with the third sector for capacity building, appropriate allocation of resources and financial accountability. 

  • Students' needs are met at the earliest opportunity by a trained workforce. This prevents problems from escalating, meaning that fewer children and young people require more costly, specialist services and those with the most complex needs can access occupational therapy when they need it.

  • Sensory Inclusive Schools can form the LA's Ordinarily Available Provision as part of the local offer for schools. 

  • Sensory Inclusive Schools support LAs and schools in meeting SEND reforms (Children and Family Act 2014) and the SEND Green Paper, which emphasises providing the right support to children in the right place and at the right time.

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