Helping children whose nervous systems over-react or under-react to everyday sensory input — building a regulated, calm, and engaged nervous system
Ayres SI framework — evidence-based, play-based, deeply individualised.
Using the Sensory Processing Measure (SPM), standardised clinical observation, and parent interview, we map your child's sensory profile across all sensory systems — identifying which senses are hyper-reactive, hypo-reactive, or poorly integrated.
Sessions in our richly equipped sensory gym — swings, trampolines, crash mats, tactile bins, ball pools, and weighted blankets — provide exactly calibrated sensory challenges that allow the child's nervous system to practise integration in a safe, child-led, joyful context.
For children with tactile hypersensitivity — systematic, hierarchical desensitisation to textures, temperatures, and touch pressures. We work from the child's tolerance level upward, never forcing, always respecting the nervous system's limits.
Targeted swinging, spinning, and compression activities provide the vestibular and proprioceptive input that regulates the entire nervous system — reducing sensory-seeking, improving attention, and calming the fight-or-flight response.
A customised daily schedule of sensory activities timed to maintain the nervous system in optimal regulation — provided before school, during homework, and at transitions. Designed for parents to implement at home using simple, accessible tools.
We recommend specific environmental modifications — lighting, clothing strategies, noise management, and seating choices — and train parents to read their child's sensory signals, prevent dysregulation, and respond effectively when it occurs.
Children who previously spent 45 minutes crying about clothing learn to tolerate and eventually not notice textures that previously caused distress. Morning routines are transformed.
Birthday parties, shopping trips, school assemblies — previously impossible experiences become accessible as sensory tolerance improves and regulation strategies are learned.
Sensory dysregulation is a leading cause of difficulty settling for sleep and staying asleep. As overall nervous system regulation improves, sleep typically improves dramatically.
A regulated nervous system is a focused nervous system. As sensory processing becomes more efficient, classroom attention, task completion, and learning improve without any change in cognitive ability.
Dhara screamed and fought getting dressed every morning for 45 minutes. She refused to eat any food that touched another food on the plate. She could not attend birthday parties due to crowd and noise sensitivity. She was awaiting autism assessment.
Sensory Profile assessment showed severe tactile and auditory hypersensitivity with vestibular under-responsivity. We began weekly clinic-based Ayres SI sessions, tactile desensitisation programme (brushing protocol), and daily proprioceptive sensory diet. Parents received environment modification guidance.
In 3 months: morning dressing reduced from 45 to 12 minutes. In 5 months: Dhara attended and stayed at a birthday party for the first time. Food separation anxiety resolved. Autism assessment found no ASD — sensory processing disorder was the primary presentation. Family describes this as "getting our daughter back."
SPD is not currently in the DSM-5 as a standalone diagnosis but is widely recognised by occupational therapists and is included in the ICD-11 (World Health Organisation's diagnostic manual). Regardless of whether a formal SPD diagnosis is given, the sensory processing difficulties are real, measurable, and respond to treatment.
Yes — sensory processing differences are a recognised criterion in autism diagnosis (DSM-5, Criterion B4). However, sensory processing difficulties also exist in children without autism — in ADHD, anxiety, developmental delay, and as a standalone profile. Not every child with SPD has autism.
Most families notice observable improvements in 3–6 months of weekly SI therapy combined with daily home sensory diet. Full stabilisation of the nervous system typically takes 9–18 months for moderate-severe profiles. Improvements are often non-linear — good periods and difficult periods alternate as the nervous system recalibrates.
The initial sensory profile assessment and programme design absolutely require a trained OT. Once the programme is established, parents can implement home sensory diet activities independently — and this is expected and encouraged. The therapy clinic provides the specific assessment and intensive treatment; home provides the daily maintenance.
Yes. Hypo-sensitivity (under-responsivity) and sensory-seeking are the opposite presentation from hypersensitivity but equally significant. The child who constantly crashes into things, seeks deep pressure, and needs enormous amounts of movement input has a nervous system that is under-registering sensory information and seeking more. SI therapy addresses both presentations.
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