Embodied Enabling: Sensory-Motor Integration Foundations for Children’s Wellbeing

Saturday, 7 June 2025 

10am to 12.30pm

In person at the Donald McIntyre Building, 84 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Many of the children we work with as therapists and educators present with difficulties that leave us wondering whether classroom intervention or therapeutic intervention might be best. Difficulties in emotional regulation, anxiety or being able to focus to learn can arise from a range of underlying starting points and to say too quickly ‘it’s an emotional issue’ or ‘it’s a learning issue’ can miss the embodied foundation of some difficulties that come from insufficiently integrated sensory experiences. Post Covid this may be a particular area of difficulty for children due to reduced opportunity for physical engagement with the world and others before starting school.

Charlotte Davies will present her insights on motor-sensory integration as a foundation for therapists and educators to develop a way of working alongside each other to support children who are struggling to access learning. Her work helps us as therapists and educators think about how we can identify a child’s needs in that that overlapping area where both emotion and learning are impacted by the body, by looking at our children’s global development in the areas of:

• Motor skills
• Sound processing skills
• Binocular vision and visual development
• Behaviour and self-regulation
• Cognitive skills

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