Reflection
and Investigation
Looking for
clues
Sharing
excellence in multi sensory practice
21st November
2008 at the Chancellor's
Hotel, Chancellors Way, Moseley Rd, Manchester, M14
6NN
A one-day high
energy, creative and innovative forum to advance sensory
solutions to challenges for all practitioners in education
and adult learning.
Presentation
topics include:
Kept
in the dark - a research perspective
Introducing
stone age Multi Sensory Environments
Everyday
sensory life!
The
multi sensory room - an Australian occupational therapists
perspective
Sparkling multi
sensory interactions
Looking through
the microscope - the successes of multi sensory
learning
License
to practice - critical skills required
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place.
Presenters:
Laura Waite
Robert Orr
Flo Longhorn
Alison Shorrock
Pauline Lynch
Mandy Williams
Susan Fowler
Richard Hirstwood
Full
agenda
9.30am
Flo Longhorn &
Richard Hirstwood,
Multi Sensory
Consultants
'Welcome
to the Forum!'
9.40am
- 10.35am
Laura
Waite,
Lecturer in disability studies, Liverpool Hope University.
'Kept
in the Dark'
It has long
been recognised that people with profound and multiple
disabilities are at a higher risk of experiencing hearing
and visual
impairment. This presentation will draw on the latest
research on what we know about sensory impairment in
individuals labelled as having profound and learning
multiple disabilities. It will
consider how practitioners can utilise multi sensory
environments to establish how people are using their sight
and hearing and how we might assist them in further
development of these skills.
10.30am
- 11am Robert
Orr,
Independent Consultant and author.
'Wombs,
arms, cribs, treasure baskets & other
stone age Multi Sensory Environments.'
Robert
robustly challenges the multi sensory studio &
equipment approach, with insights into the earliest of
multi sensory environments - and the most precious - human
beings.
11am
- 11.25am Coffee
11.30am - 12.25pm
Choice
of Workshop
Alison
Shorrock Senior Clinician Occupational
Therapist.
'The
ESE Project - everyday sensory
experience'
Alison explains that ESE is
about being more aware of our sensory input into everyday
living activities, making carers more aware of the value of
this from morning until bed time.
or
Pauline Lynch, Hope
School
‘Curriculum
in the sensory studio’
Pauline
is one of the innovators spearheading the work in Hopes new
cutting edge ‘studio’. This practical session will look at
ways of developing themes to support curricula activities
for hard to reach learners.
12.30pm
- 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm
- 2.30pm
Choice of Workshop:
Mandy
Williams Senior Clinician Occupational
Therapist, Editor & Writer.
"Licensed
to Practice?" What skills does a MSE practitioner require?
'
Mandy
examines the critical knowledge required (neuroscience)
about sensory processing that can make or break the success
of any sensory focussed activity or programme. The
importance of using a collaborative & person centred
process is also explored.
or
Laura
Waite,
Lecturer
'Come
and look hear!'
Following on
from Laura’s presentation on sensory impairment this
practical workshop will look at how practitioners can
develop their own visual and hearing assessment tools for
use in MSEs.
2.30pm
- 2.50pm Susan
Fowler, Australian Occupational
Therapist and author.
'The
controlled Multi Sensory Environment'
(DVD
presentation.)
2.50pm
- 3.05pm Tea
3.10pm
- 3.30pm
Flo
Longhorn, Principal Consultant in
special
education & author.
'Recent
innovations in multi sensory approaches to learning - under
the microscope of the neuroscientist.'
Flo
will see how recent multi
sensory innovations fare under the
microscope of the scientist with
rigorous investigations - including
Red Ted & sucking through
straws…...
3.30pm
- 4pm
Richard
Hirstwood, Multi
Sensory Consultant
‘Sparkling
stimulation: case studies’
Using
recent video, Richard will show specific individual multi
sensory interactions. His session will illustrate the uses
of multi sensory equipment with students with high
dependency needs. He will demonstrate new techniques to
enable you to ‘sparkle and shine’ in your multi sensory
environment.
4pm
Close of Forum
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place.
Speakers -
Reflection and investigation
21st
November 2008, Manchester,
M14 6NN
Laura
Waite has
worked in services for people with learning disabilities
for over 20 years. She started her career in residential
social work in the
mid 1980s and managed a number of housing and day services.
She later worked in speech and hearing therapy specialising
in children and adults with hearing impairment, children
with Down’s syndrome and children and adults with profound
and multiple learning disabilities. She moved back into
Social Work at the end of the
1990s before moving into the voluntary sector where she
spent four years working on the Multiple Disability
Services for the Royal National Institute of the Blind. She
is currently a lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool
Hope University with research interests in people with
sensory impairment, Down syndrome and profound and multiple
disabilities.
Susan
Fowler is an
Australian Occupational therapist & writer. She is the
author of 'Sensory Stimulation - sensory focussed
activities for people with physical & multiple
disabilities' (2007.)
Mandy
Williams is a
Senior Clinician – Occupational Therapist at the
Communication Resource Centre – Scope, Melbourne,
Australia. Mandy has worked in the areas of severe and
multiple disabilities for more than 30 years. She is
co-founder and co-editor of the Enhancing Communication and
Participation through Sensory Stimulation (ECAPSS)
Newsletter and was co-convener of the National ECAPSS
Conference September 2001. She lectures widely in the area
of sensory-focused approaches for people with high support
needs. She has several publications to her credit including
“Activities for Everyone –art & craft” (2003). Mandy
has a particular interest in sensory assessment,
sensory-focused activities and environments that encourage
maximum opportunities for communication and participation.
Flo Longhorn is an International Consultant
in special education, with reference to profound disability
or autism and author of 15 books on multisensory learning.
She has a particular interest in how early development is
closely linked to the senses and how this impacts on
learning at any level of development.
Robert
Orr (MED
(Human Relations) B.A. DipSpecialED (visual handicap) Cert
Ed NVQ Playwork) is the author of 'My right to play
(2003)': a classic in observation of the world seen through
the eyes of a child with special needs. He is an opponent
of the MSR! A previous head teacher & RNIB advisor,
Robert is well known in the special education world for his
work with learners with profound disability.
Richard
Hirstwood is
a motivational and accomplished international presenter in
the field of sensory learning. His extensive experience is
based upon practical knowledge - giving him the insight
into what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t in
multi sensory practice. Regular sessions with children
& adults in a variety of multi sensory rooms enables
him to maintain this level of excellent practice. To date
he has inspired early years practitioners, teachers &
therapists across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia
& the America's.
Alison
Shorrock is
an occupational therapist/researcher/manager of one of the
largest MSR's in the country -SPACE, Preston. This centre
has recently been successfully re-vamped & restored,
using the most advanced
equipment, based on on-going research at the centre.
Pauline
Lynch is a
senior teacher with ten years experience at Hope School in Wigan which
caters for students with severe learning difficulties. She
originally trained as a PE/Dance Teacher and delivered
senior PE sessions in school. She teaches a class of
students with profound and multiple learning difficulties
and is currently developing a multi sensory curriculum.
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place.
