
Gain practical insights into autism and sensory challenges in school, from navigating the education system to securing reasonable adjustments and coordinating community and NHS supports.
Explore how autism and sensory differences affect school life. Examine sensory processing, the involved senses, and their link to stress, meltdowns, shutdowns, overload, and burnout, plus practical strategies.
Identify sensory differences across senses as drivers of communication and social challenges in autism. Create a sensory profile and grab sheet to tailor school strategies and care plans.
Explore how balance and vestibular sense guide navigating spaces, time, distance, and sequencing. Use visual supports, graphic organizers, heavy work, fixed seating, and breaks to support sensory needs.
Explore synesthesia as a cross-sensory experience in autism, where a sense expresses through another, such as contextual smells carrying emotion or trauma cues, and other crossovers involving the proprioceptive sense.
Autism often has sensory difficulties at its heart and nowhere are these more of a challenge than in the school environment. Missing these sensory needs can lead to very distressed behaviour and school refusal.
Hi, my name's Loren Snow, I've taught tens of thousands of parents of autistic children and have worked with many organisations such as Public Health England, and The National Autistic Society. As an autistic adult myself, I have many sensory differences, I’m also surrounded by other autistic adults, and I have worked for a decade supporting parents to understand their children’s sensory needs.
In this short course, we'll cover:
Our 5 main senses
Extra senses you might not even have heard of such as our senses of balance, body awareness, temperature, pain, and our internal sense
How each one might show itself at school, on the way to school, and in different school environments
The strategies that I’ve learned help autistic children from my work with schools and the I’ve 10,000s of parents I’ve taught
It can be really hard seeing your child struggle and be unable to cope. So I hope this course helps you.
Please join me today, on this course to learn more about autism’s sensory challenges in school.