Sensory Integration Education is led by an outstanding team of professionals who bring passion and expertise to improving support for people with sensory integration and sensory processing differences.
As a not-for-profit organisation, we reinvest any surplus into course development and the support of early-career researchers. Our highly experienced Board of Directors provides strategic oversight, supported by our friendly and professional Support Team.
We work in close partnership with Sheffield Hallam University on course development and delivery.
Our valued and growing network of Contributors helps shape and deliver our training—creating content, leading lectures and workshops, and mentoring SIE students training to become SI Practitioners and Advanced Practitioners. If you’d like to become an SIE Contributor, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Established in 2010, the Fellowship of Sensory Integration Education is awarded in recognition of significant and sustained contribution to the organisation and its goals: improving awareness, understanding, and the quality of treatment for sensory integration and sensory processing difficulties.
Rosalind has an enviable track record in developing national standards for high-quality education.
She served on the UK Quality Assurance Agency group that produced the first Benchmark Statements for pre-registration health courses; led the development of the UK Standards for Work-based Learning for Speech and Language Therapy; and represented the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in developing the Health and Care Professions Council’s Standards for Education and Training. She also acted as a Partner for the Health and Care Professions Council, the UK regulator that upholds standards to protect the public.
Sylvia’s career spans academia, research, clinical practice, senior public-sector management and project management.
Dr Sylvia Taylor-Goh PhD, MSc, BSc, Cert MRCSLT is committed to evidence-based practice. Her PhD on clinical reasoning and decision-making across occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and biomedical engineering produced the Taylor-Goh Model of Clinical Reasoning.
She edits the RCSLT Clinical Guidelines, providing evidence-based guidance across 12 clinical areas, and has worked with the Department of Health, England, to establish a Research Unit and deliver an assistive technology research project. With NICE, she helped develop approaches that ensure the service user’s voice is heard in clinical guidelines.
She held academic posts at City University and the University of London for over ten years, and has served as an External Examiner and Supervising Fellow for Professional Doctorates. A Recognised Teacher at Sheffield Hallam University, she is partnering with a UK university to embed her clinical reasoning model across pre-registration health curricula. A published author and active researcher, she is a regular invited conference speaker.
Her practice, Relational Communication, provides specialist assessment and intervention for children, young people and adults with complex congenital and acquired neurological disorders, and she acts as a medico-legal Expert Witness in this area. She is active in professional societies and sits on the RCSLT Policy and Professional Practice Committee, advising on professional development, standards, policy and public affairs.
Stephanie is a Specialist Occupational Therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner supporting children and young people with Autism.
She consistently uses her knowledge of Sensory Integration theory to guide her practice as part of a trans-disciplinary team consisting of speech and language therapists and occupational therapists. Stephanie found the journey to complete her MSc in Sensory Integration a positive and invaluable part of her career.
Beth is an accomplished Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner.
Beth Smithson’s diverse career spans the NHS, special and mainstream schools, community trusts, and overseas NGO work.
Her sensory integration journey began with a Vietnamese NGO, where she spent two years training staff in sensory integration theory and sensory-based interventions. Inspired by the positive outcomes, she completed Sensory Integration Education training in 2016, qualifying as an Advanced SI Practitioner.
In clinical roles, Beth has used sensory integration with children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) in mainstream schools and with students with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) in a specialist secondary provision. More recently, she managed NHS occupational therapy services, successfully advocating for and embedding sensory processing and integration practice into routine service delivery. Committed to advancing the field, Beth supports others in their learning journeys, empowering clinicians, parents, and schools to advocate confidently for sensory integration practice.
As a clinician, Lelanie has worked in the NHS, charity, and the private sector. She has spent most of her career working with children and young people with sensory integration difficulties.
Dr Lelanie Brewer has a background in clinical practice and higher education. Originally qualifying as an OT in South Africa, Dr Lelanie Brewer gained her MSc in OT at Brunel University, London and her PhD at Newcastle University’s Population Health Sciences Institute. She is an Advanced Practitioner in Sensory Integration.
Before joining Sensory Integration Education in 2018, Lelanie was a Senior Lecturer in OT and MSc OT programme lead at Northumbria University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
