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Why Choose Sensory Integration Education

Our accredited Postgraduate Programme, delivered in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University, equips you to become a qualified sensory integration practitioner at Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma, or MSc level.

University-Accredited Qualification

Earn a respected qualification that advances your career and builds your professional credibility.

Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Curriculum

Gain practical clinical skills and in-depth knowledge in Ayres Sensory Integration® (ASI), including assessment tools to identify and support sensory processing differences.

Expert Teaching Team

Learn from leading clinicians and researchers; SIE has been training sensory integration practitioners for over 30 years.

Flexible Online Learning 24/7

Study at your own pace with full eMentor and Clinical Mentor support. No travel or accommodation required.

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Get immediate access to our "Getting Up To Speed" module and begin your journey today.

Choose your profession to explore the impact you can make as a qualified Sensory Integration Practitioner.

Postgraduate Programme

Why Occupational Therapists Train in Sensory Integration

As an Occupational Therapist, you help people of all ages live fuller, more independent lives. But when sensory processing differences are present, everyday tasks - from dressing and eating to focusing and participating - can become overwhelming or impossible. Becoming a qualified Sensory Integration Practitioner gives you the knowledge and tools to assess and address these challenges with confidence.
  • Deepen Your Clinical Expertise
  • Use Standardised, Evidence-Based Assessment Tools
  • Support Neurodivergent Clients More Effectively
  • Gain an Accredited Qualification
  • Stand Out in a Competitive Field
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Postgraduate Programme

How Speech and Language Therapists Can Use Sensory Integration

As a Speech and Language Therapist, your work in supporting communication, eating, drinking, and swallowing relies on finely tuned sensory and motor systems. Sensory processing differences can significantly impact these areas, making it vital to understand and address them in your assessments and interventions.
  • Sensory processing plays a key role in communication, oral motor control, and feeding behaviours.
  • Identifying sensory differences is essential for accurate assessment and effective therapy planning.
  • With specialist training in sensory integration, you’ll gain the tools to better support clients with sensory-related challenges.
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As a Physiotherapist, you help people move better, live well, and achieve a higher quality of life.

But did you know that sensory processing plays a critical role in movement, body awareness, balance, and postural control? Sensory integration knowledge enhances physiotherapy practice by giving you deeper insight into the "why" behind your clients’ physical challenges. By evaluating how your clients process sensory input, you’ll better understand their movement patterns and functional limitations. Our evidence-informed CPD courses and SI Practitioner qualification provide you with the knowledge and tools to integrate sensory approaches confidently into your clinical practice.
  • Deepen your understanding of how sensory processing influences motor performance and functional skills.
  • Gain assessment tools to identify sensory challenges in both adults and children.
  • Use evidence-based strategies to support development, recovery, or rehabilitation.
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Why Registered Nurses Train in Sensory Integration

As a registered nurse, you’re already skilled in holistic, person-centred care. Adding a sensory integration qualification deepens your ability to assess and respond to the complex needs of individuals across the lifespan - especially those with neurological, developmental, or mental health conditions.
  • Understand Behaviour Through a Sensory Lens
  • Improve Assessment and Care Planning
  • Enhance Multi-Disciplinary Working
  • Qualified SI Practitioners are highly valued in multi-professional teams.
  • Support Children, Adults, and Older People
  • Advance Your Career with a Recognised Qualification

* NMC (or equivalent) registered Nurses can take Module A (from February 2026) and Module B to become a Sensory Integration Practitioner and gain a PGCert in Sensory Integration.

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Why Practitioner Psychologists Train in Sensory Integration

As a Clinical or Educational Psychologist, you're trained to explore how people think, feel, learn, and behave. But many of the emotional, behavioural, and learning challenges your clients face may be rooted in - or significantly affected by - sensory processing differences.
  • Understand the Sensory Roots of Behaviour
  • Strengthen Assessment and Formulation
  • Bridge Gaps in Complex Presentations
  • Enhance Multidisciplinary Collaboration
  • Advance Your Skills with an Accredited Qualification

* HCPC (or equivalent) registered Practitioner Psychologists (including clinical and educational psychologists)  can take Module A (from February 2026) and Module B to become a Sensory Integration Practitioner and gain a PGCert in Sensory Integration.

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Now Open to More Health Professionals

HCPC (or equivalent) registered professionals:
  • Art Therapists
  • Drama Therapists
  • Music Therapists
  • Social Workers (SWE registered or equivalent)
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Teachers (TRA registered) and Play Therapists (PTUK or BAPT registered only) can take Module A only.

Other suitably qualified professionals will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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Fees

Starting in February 2026, we will transition to restructured modules, maintaining the same excellent quality standards and support. The award-winning Sheffield Hallam University remains the accrediting university. 

If you have started on the current pathway, you may continue on it.

You can book one or more modules at a time. Modules must be completed in order.


Additional Fees and Payment Information

  • Clinical Mentor Sessions for SI Modules 3, 4, B, and C
    These modules require three 1-hour Clinical Mentor Sessions.
    You may:

    • Use a workplace-based clinical mentor at no additional cost, or

    • Arrange an external clinical mentor (approx. £50 per hour).

  • Discounts
    A 5% discount is available for single orders of £10,000 or more.
    (Applies to individual module orders only.)

  • VAT and Pricing
    As a not-for-profit organisation, SIE is not VAT registered. The prices shown are final, with no VAT added.

  • Interest-Free Payment Plans (for self-funding students)
    Available for Modules 1–4 and A–C:

    • Modules 1–4: 4 monthly payments of £300

    • Modules A–C: 5 monthly payments of £350


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Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to the most common questions we receive about our postgraduate pathway.

If you have any other questions please ask here.

A Sensory Integration Practitioner is awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Sensory Integration upon successful completion of SI Modules 1, 2, and 3 (or equivalent Modules A and B).

An Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner is awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in Sensory Integration upon successful completion of SI Modules 1, 2, 3, and 4 (or equivalent Modules A, B, and C).

In addition to training for therapists, nurses, psychologists, and dietitians working towards qualification as Sensory Integration Practitioners, we offer a range of courses for parents, teachers, and other professionals. 

These courses are designed to help you better understand sensory integration difficulties and explore practical changes you can make—whether at home, school, or work—to create more inclusive and supportive environments.

Pleease see the Sensory Integration Education Policy Statement Regarding the New ICEASI Standards for Training Programs in Ayres Sensory Integration®

Why Accreditation Matters

Put simply, accreditation provides reassurance for you, your clients or patients, and your employers that the course meets the standards of quality and competence stated on your certificate.

When investing in your professional development, it’s essential to consider not just the qualification a course offers, but also whether its quality and credibility have been independently verified by a recognised authority.

While certification typically confirms that a course meets the standards set by a third party, accreditation goes further. An accredited course has undergone formal review and has been officially recognised as delivering the appropriate levels of academic and professional competence for its level of study.

All modules in our Sensory Integration MSc Pathway, leading to a Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, or MSc in Advancing Practice in Sensory Integration, are accredited by Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Only government-recognised institutions can use the title ‘university’ and award or accredit postgraduate degrees, ensuring your qualification meets rigorous national standards.

Yes, successful completion of these modules earns academic credits, typically between 15 and 40 credits per module. UK university credits are internationally recognised and highly transferable.

  • After successfully completing Modules A and B, you will have achieved 80 academic credits and be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Sensory Integration from Sheffield Hallam University. You will also receive the professional title of Sensory Integration Practitioner from Sensory Integration Education.

  • By completing Modules A, B and C, you will accumulate 120 academic credits and be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Sensory Integration from Sheffield Hallam University. This also entitles you to the title Sensory Integration Advanced Practitioner from Sensory Integration Education.

  • Following the Postgraduate Diploma, you can progress to complete your MSc in Sensory Integration by undertaking two additional modules at Sheffield Hallam University:

    • SI Module D: Researching for Practice

    • SI Module E: Dissertation

Please see the university eligibility criteria for a 'break in study' here.

We offer the world's only MSc in Advancing Practice Sensory Integration.

Have a look at how our postgraduate university-accredited SI modules and qualifications compare on content and value for money.

Have you already taken an SI Module course? Find out which one to take next here.

A range of sensory integration assessment tools is used to gather evidence that helps clinicians make data-driven decisions when working with clients who have sensory integration or sensory processing difficulties. 

This page provides an overview of current and frequently used sensory integration assessment tests.

You will have 12 months of access to the course content from the course start date.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept late bookings.

If you have studied sensory integration before, you may be able to receive recognition of your prior learning from Sheffield Hallam University. 

See further information here.

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We’ve helped over 2,000 therapists qualify in SI, gaining UK-university accredited postgraduate qualifications and the experience and skills to practise confidently and effectively.

SI Module 4 has greatly enhanced both my clinical and professional skills

I feel that the breadth and depth of the study topics, clinical hours and mentoring support for Module 4 has greatly enhanced both my clinical and professional skills enabling me to practice confidently as an Advanced Practitioner. By applying advanced knowledge of sensory integration theory and practice to my clinical field, I can respond more effectively to the diverse needs of the children with whom I work.

Kate Broughton

Occupational Therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner

Exciting and rewarding experience

Completing the postgraduate certificate in sensory integration was an exciting and rewarding experience and it's completely enhanced my professional practice.

Tina Judson

Qualifying as an SI-SLT Advanced Practitioner has given me greater confidence

Qualifying as an SI-SLT Advanced Practitioner has given me greater confidence to use my existing skills within SLCN. The course assignment meanwhile provided the opportunity to place SI on the local agenda for supporting communication.

Lisa Chapman

Speech and Language Therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner

I found the whole experience, including the online teaching, rich in content and rewarding

I was both nervous and excited at the prospect of studying for my advanced SI practitioner status. I found the whole experience, including the online teaching, rich in content and rewarding in terms of expanding my understanding and deepening my knowledge and skills. All of which I have had the opportunity to put into my current practice, in addition to supporting work colleagues on their SI journey.

Children's Occupational Therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner

Feel more confident with linking to the evidence base to guide my clinical reasoning and provision

The Module 4 training has completely altered my practice in providing intervention following an ASI frame of reference. I am much more focused in pinpointing priorities for intervention, and I have become more creative in my use of theming and facilitating collaboration in activity choice and play. I also feel more confident with linking to the evidence base to guide my clinical reasoning and provision.

Jenny Shorter

Occupational Therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner

Incredibly valuable to take the time out to develop

After 21 years of using an SI frame of reference it is still incredibly valuable to take the time out to develop. It is such a rapidly developing field that there is always something new to learn and it's complexity means that any re-immersion in formal learning results in new connections and insights that will benefit clinical practice. And it is so interesting! It's also really good to now introduce myself as an Advanced Practitioner after all these years!

Karen Forrest

Occupational Therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner

Really resonated with my clinical and educational practice

I had support from a supervisor with Sheffield Hallam University and also support from a sensory integration specialist. They really helped me to narrow down my area of interest to create a research project which could be conducted in the amount of time available to gather the data. My sensory integration supervisor really educated me on single subject experimental designs, which is so relevant for investigating the effectiveness of interventions when working with children with complex presentations and high support needs. That really resonated with my clinical and educational practice because it was all about implementing interventions within the natural settings of a school.

Laura Osman

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Advanced Practitioner and Qualified Teacher, and SIE MSc graduate

I can honestly say it’s transformed my practice beyond all recognition

“Sensory integration therapy has transformed my practice in many ways. It’s helped me to engage in more in-depth assessments with my clients and to understand them better. It’s also enabled me to look at a client in a very holistic way, from both a bottom-up approach and also considering what I can do from a top-down approach to support their access to activities. It’s transformed my practice in the fact that I’m now called upon as an expert in sensory integration with a lot of different clients. I can honestly say that from that moment on [of taking the first module in neuroscience], it’s transformed my practice beyond all recognition. It’s been truly transformational.” (MSc in Advancing Practice SI)

Occupational Therapist, MSc graduate

Definitely worth doing

“Definitely worth doing if you have a strong interest in SI and want to learn more about it .” (SI Module 1)

Tom Dunstan

Occupational Therapist

Can’t believe I did the whole module from my dining room almost stress free!

“Really enjoyed it, great support from my tutor. Lectures were interesting and easy to follow. Very easy to access, fantastically done course. Can’t believe I did the whole module from my dining room almost stress free!” (SI Module 1)

Occupational Therapist

Great wealth of professional knowledge that can enhance your understanding and skills

“This course has a great wealth of professional knowledge that can enhance your understanding and skills.” (SI Module 2)

Millie Vong

Speech and Language Therapist

I have learnt a lot about conducting my initial interviews and the process of active listening

“I have learnt a lot about conducting my initial interviews and the process of active listening. I have started applying a Narrative Medicine approach when meeting children and their carers/ parents and I feel this gives me a lot more information of their lived experience, their perception of their challenges and what their main concerns are.” (SI Module 2)

Anita Walk

Occupational Therapist

Having a mentor support you in your learning has been invaluable

“This course will expand your understanding of the application of ASI in practice with examples from clinicians in the field. It will challenge you to critique your own clinical reasoning and evidence base for interventions and work with clients. In the best possible way! Having a mentor support you in your learning has been invaluable.” (SI Module 3)

Cath

Occupational Therapist

Very sound grounding for developing your practice as an SI practitioner

“The training is very thorough with a good mix of practical and theory. Make sure you get your clinical hours started asap. Find a clinical supervisor who works in a similar field. Spread the workload out across the time available. At the end of it, you will feel like you have a very sound grounding for developing your practice as an SI practitioner.” (SI Module 3)

Occupational Therapist

Highly recommend this course

“I would highly recommend this course particularly. If you want to introduce and develop SI in your workplace and develop knowledge of SI in the research, then this course will help.” (SI Module 4)

Nicola Stewart

Speech and Language Therapist

By far the best learning experience that I have ever had

“After completing SI module 4, I can say that I raised my understanding of sensory integration to a completely new level and although being a very challenging module it has been by far the best learning experience that I have ever had.” (SI Module 4)

Terry Ann Parnis

Occupational Therapist

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