Sensory Defensiveness Workshop - A Comprehensive Treatment Approach

Sensational Kids

Presented by Julia Wilbarger, Ph.D., OTR & Tracy Murnan Stackhouse, MA, OTR, this is a three day workshop where Sensory Defensiveness will be described across multiple age and diagnostic groups. The relation between sensory defensiveness and emerging psychological and neuroscience theories of behaviour will be considered.

Clinical labs consist of training in specific assessment and treatment techniques including the protocols developed by Patricia Wilbarger. Practicum exercises incorporate detecting and analyzing sensory based behaviours, activity planning (the “sensory diet”) and the management of individual cases using advanced clinical reasoning procedures.