Take Time for CPD This Festive Season
Enjoy SIE's Lifelong Learning Winter Webinar Replay Offer
With the year winding down and the winter break approaching, now is the perfect moment to press pause, refill your cup and invest in your professional growth!
From 15th December to 14th January, all SIE Lifelong Learning Programme members can enjoy unlimited access to our Winter Webinar Replay Offer—a curated collection of 8 of our most popular and impactful webinars from this year.
Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of sensory integration, expand your clinical toolkit, or explore cutting-edge developments in the field, this replay collection offers a rich learning experience to close out the year and start the next with renewed insight.
Below is a preview of what you'll be able to dive into.
✨ Sensory Spotlight Talk: Understanding Motor Disinhibition – Navigating Motor Skills and Behaviour in Autistic Individuals
Hosted by: SIE Fellow Virginia Spielmann
A must-watch for SI therapists, this session provides a comprehensive guide to recognising and understanding motor disinhibition—an often-misunderstood feature of autism and profound dyspraxia.
Key takeaways:
- Differentiating motor skill challenges from behavioural responses
- Neurological insights into motor disinhibition
- Evidence-based approaches to assessment and intervention
- Creating supportive environments that respect sensory-motor needs
✨ Sensory Spotlight Talk: Affordances and Sensory Discrimination in Praxis
Hosted by: Tracy Murnan Stackhouse
How do children learn to do things? Tracey Murnan Stackhouse brings theory, neuroscience and practice together in this insightful session exploring how sensory discrimination informs praxis.
You’ll learn about:
- The role of affordances—how the body and environment invite action
- How sensory inputs form the basis of action plans
- Interventions that nurture ideation and motor planning
✨ Sensory Spotlight Talk: Sensory Processing and Sleep in Autism
Hosted by: Professor Shelly Lane
Sleep challenges are often heightened for autistic individuals. In this webinar Professor Shelly Lane guides us through the complex relationship between neurochemistry, sensory processing, and the sleep/wake cycle.
Explore:
- How sensory differences impact sleep and participation
- Why autistic individuals may experience unique sleep disruptions
- Evidence-informed intervention possibilities
✨ Fostering Connection and Co-regulation Through a Sensory Processing Lens
Hosted by: Rachael Thompson
Autistic OT Rachael Thompson blends lived experience and expertise in this compassionate webinar focused on connection, communication and co-regulation across the lifespan.
Learn more about:
- Sensory influences on relational safety and connection
- Practical sensory strategies to support co-regulation
- Applying these frameworks in clinical, educational and personal contexts
✨ A Virtual Reality Sensory Room for People with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Hosted by: Dr Caroline Mills
Step into the future of sensory support. Dr Caroline Mills presents groundbreaking research from a world-first trial using immersive Virtual Reality to support autistic adults and those with intellectual disabilities.
Discover how VR is reshaping sensory intervention and participation.
✨ Introduction to the BUSS® (Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor System) Model
Hosted by: Sarah Lloyd
Join Consultant Occupational Therapist and author Sarah Lloyd for an introduction to the BUSS® Model—a relational, developmentally-informed intervention for children and families impacted by early trauma.
Key takeaways:
- How BUSS® differs from sensory integration therapy
- How early-years LEAPlets are supporting children across the UK and Ireland
- How the model is being used as early intervention in fostering, adoption and education services
✨ Introduction to My Sensory Experiences Tool (MYSET©)
Hosted by: Dr Jill Ashburner
Discover MYSET©—a neurodiversity-affirming photographic card-sort tool designed to help neurodivergent children and adults communicate their sensory experiences.
Perfect for therapists, educators, and behaviour support practitioners, this webinar explores how MYSET can be used to co-create sensory-friendly environments that honour individual sensory needs.
✨ Rethinking Mental Health Through Sensory Formulation
Hosted by: Becky Matson
OT and Advanced SI Practitioner Becky Matson offers a refreshing, compassionate framework for understanding mental health through a sensory lens.
This session covers:
- The neurological basis of dysregulation in mental health contexts
- Using the evidence base to validate and reframe client experiences
- Applying sensory formulation to guide intervention
- Case examples that bring these ideas to life
Catch Up, Learn and Grow This Winter
The Winter Replay Offer is the perfect chance to catch up on webinars you missed, revisit sessions that inspired you, or explore new ideas at your own pace.
Whether you’re relaxing between festivities or carving out quiet learning time in the New Year, these webinars are here to support your growth and practice.
If you’re not yet part of our Lifelong Learning Programme, now is a great time to join and enjoy unlimited access to a full year of sensory integration CPD.