Getting Kids In Sync:
A Sensory Processing Approach to
Challenges Associated with Autism, ADHD,
Learning and Behavioural Disorders

Course Description

Getting Kids In Sync is designed for parents, teachers, therapists, caregivers and other professionals who are interested in understanding the basics of sensory processing and in adding beneficial experiences to the sensory diets of the children they care for.

Attendees will gain an awareness of associated problems relating to sensory processing difficulties for children, both with and without diagnoses, of: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD, ADD and other developmental and neurological challenges. They will participate in, and learn to generate, activities and inputs designed to support children “getting in sync,” and gather ideas to take back to the classroom, home, clinic or social setting to use with all children whether they present with sensory processing challenges or are developing typically.

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn to recognize, even as non-specialists, how dysregulation in the sensory systems “plays out,” disrupting children’s work, play, fun, sleep, eating, learning and communication.

The speaker will describe how, both recognized and undetected, sensory processing difficulties in children can significantly impact social and emotional relationships, behaviour, attention and learning in the classroom, home and clinic.

Attendees will learn how to generate activities that help kids get in sync, emphasizing the use of efficient sensory inputs, organizing rhythmic input, heavy work/deep pressure, and regulating respiratory patterns with children.

Objective 1: To describe sensory integration, sensory modulation and sensory discrimination and the role they play in the learning process

Objective 2: To identify the essential ingredients of an effective “sensory diet”

Objective 3: To gain awareness of associated problems relating to sensory processing challenges (i.e., difficulties impacting attention, behavior, learning and social engagement)

Objective 4: To participate in, and learn to generate, activities and inputs designed to support children “getting in sync”

Objective 5: To gather ideas to take back to the classroom, home or clinic to use with all children whether they present with sensory processing challenges or are developing typically

Objective 6: To increase strategies for effective engagement and connection to support overall emotional regulation, social relationships, focus, attention, problem solving and motor planning abilities in the “out of sync” child

sample schedule
subject to change

• 8:00 - 8:45 Registration
• 9:00 - 10:30 Understanding sensory processing issues and the impact they play in the learning process
• 10:30 -11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 11:45 “To know thy nervous system is to love thy nervous system” -- Planning effective sensory diets
• 11:45 - 12:45 Respiration -- Learning how to use the breath efficiently to support attention and learning -- practical tools to use in the classroom, home and social setting
• 12:45 - 1:45 Free Time for Lunch
• 1:45 - 2:45 Rhythm and entrainment -- Fun, interactive and effective tools and ideas to organize the nervous system and support attention and focus
• 2:45 - 3:15 Break
• 3:15 - 4:30 Relationship and its impact on regulation – “How do I connect with my child?”