Brighter Beginnings: Understanding your Child’s sensory differences

This workshop is for parent carers of children aged 0-5 with additional needs or disabilities (with or without a diagnosis) who live in England who have sensory processing differences (unusual reactions to stimuli such as light, sound, touch, smell, taste etc).

In early years, children are learning how to interpret and process different sensory inputs, helping them explore their environment and understand their place in it.

It’s important to help children as early as possible to learn how to deal with any adverse impacts they experience in way they process sensory information.

The aim of this workshop is to help parents of young children who may have emerging differences, to help them manage how they process and react to sensory stimuli.

The workshop will cover:

· The 8 senses

· How we receive, process and use sensory input

· Sensory processing differences

· Self-regulation and co-regulation

· Strategies relating to daily tasks

· Where to find further help and support

The live session will be 90 minutes long and will be held online via Zoom.

Further information

This workshop will be held on Zoom, it will not be recorded. You are welcome to keep your camera/audio off during the workshop if you would feel more comfortable to do so.

A PDF copy of the workshop slides and useful resources will be emailed to all attendees after the workshop.

This workshop is for parent carers of children (aged 0-5) with additional needs or disabilities (with or without a diagnosis), in England. If your child is aged 6+ and/or you do not live in England, please visit our website or call our helpline for information and support.

Practitioners/Professionals: We regret that we are unable to offer places on this workshop to practitioners/professionals unless you are also a parent carer of a child (aged 0-5) in England. You can book a place on Contact’s workshops and webinars for professionals here: Practitioner workshops and webinars or visit Our offer for professionals to find out more about how Contact can help you to support families.

We are committed to offering workshops that are accessible to the widest audience possible. If you have any accessibility needs regarding this workshop, please get in touch with training.admin@contact.org.uk as early as possible so that we can do our best to meet your needs.

For any enquiries relating to your booking, please email training.admin@contact.org.uk

This Brighter Beginnings workshop is delivered by Contact, as a member of the Early Years SEND partnership.

Brighter Beginnings: Brighter Beginnings is for parents at the beginning of their journey. Through a series of workshops, we support families to tackle some of the unique challenges they might face in the early years. For further information, please visit: Brighter Beginnings

Early Years SEND Partnership: The Early Years SEND Partnership is a national programme supporting professionals and parents with training, resources, and an approach to sharing learning, with the aim to increase access and inclusion in early years for children with SEN and Disabilities. For further information, please visit: About the EYSEND Partnership

Contact: We are Contact, the charity for families with disabled children. We support families with the best possible guidance and information. We bring families together to support each other. And we help families to campaign, volunteer and fundraise to improve life for themselves and others.

For further information and support from Contact, please visit www.contact.org.uk or email info@contact.org.uk