At Sensational Achievements, I strive to educate our community on a variety of topics through our Staff and Parent Workshops. By doing so, I hope to empower parents and school staff to be able to make a difference in the lives of neurodiverse children growing up in a digital world.
Workshops are offered throughout the community, and in local schools. Half-day and full-day staff development trainings also available tailored to staff needs.
Distracted, Disorganized, and Distraught: Raising Kids to Grow up Successfully in a Digital World
Learn about the challenges that children face growing up in a digital world and the impact that it can have on critical areas of development unless we make shifts in our daily and weekly routines to rebalance movement and screen time while building habits of success.
Distracted, Disorganized, and Distraught: Teaching a Digital Generation of Neurodivergent Children in a Montessori Environment
Learn how to adapt classroom strategies and enhance the prepared environment to meet the needs of a digital generation of learners for improved focus, self-regulation, and engagement. Learn ways to enhance playground environments/activities to optimize learning and development. Determine how to begin to build a plan the fits the needs of your classroom (Handouts Included with cost) – Sensational Exploration and Individual strategies for children. Review Checklists and Early Warning Signs:Identifying “red flags” for children who may require additional testing to determine if they meet criteria for diagnoses such as Developmental Delays, Autism and ADHD that impact learning and require additional support. Learn how to better frame the patterns of behavior/challenges for children with sensory processing disorders, attention difficulties, and related learning disabilities in the classroom and provide supports for neurodivergent children while collaborating effectively with parents.
The Body Foundation for Learning: Understanding Fine and Visual Motor Development through the Senses
This preschool teacher workshop reviews key developmental milestones while teaching how to understand development through the senses for learning. Teachers will be able to analyze activities and begin to plan out lessons as well as classroom set up for the children in their classrooms. This workshop will also help teachers understand how to set up and modify activities for neurodivergent learners.
Camp Staff Training for Supporting Neurodiverse children
Provides counselors and 1:1 support staff with an understanding of how children experience the world through their senses, what it looks like when children are overstimulated and overwhelmed, and how to build in activities and strategies to support self-regulation while encouraging participation across campe activities.
Developing Functional Visual Skills for School Success
Educates parents and teachers on the foundational visual skills needed for integrating visual and body skills for learning, attention, and focus. Learn ways to facilitate visual development in children using simple modifications to games and activities, homework warm-ups, and gross motor play that supports use of vision with movement.
Learn about the differences between school-based occupational therapy, clinic-based, and home-based occupational therapy services. Our therapists will help you ask the right questions to ensure that your therapist is a good match for your child’s needs as well as have realistic expectations as to what combination of services is most beneficial for your child.
Advocating for your child’s sensory processing needs in school
Learn about how to explain the link between your child’s sensory processing deficits and learning. This discussion covers ways to optimize sensory diet supports in school, get sensory-based goals written into your child’s IEP, and advocate for appropriate accommodations/supports depending on your child’s age and learning needs.
Additional Workshop Topics
- Understanding the impact of sensory processing deficits on learning and behavior
- Auditory Programs: Choosing the program that fits your child’s needs
