Creating a Multi-Sensory Regulation Toolkit

Understand the neuroscience behind sensory and emotional overwhelm

Explain what is happening in the brain and nervous system during sensory and emotional overwhelm — and understand why this is a physiological response, not a choice or a behaviour problem.

Understand how the system becomes activated and how to soothe it back down

Explore the triggers and pathways that activate the nervous system — and understand how multi-sensory regulation tools work to bring the system back into a state of safety and calm.

Understand each of the sensory systems and how we can be hyper or hyposensitive

Explore each sensory system in turn — and understand how individual differences in sensitivity shape the way children experience and respond to their environment, both inside and outside the body.

Understand how sensory processing difficulties lead to overwhelm

Explore how difficulties in processing sensory information accumulate into overwhelm — and why the same environment can feel entirely manageable to one child and completely unbearable to another.

Create an individualised multi-sensory regulation profile and toolkit

Build a personalised regulation profile and toolkit for individual children — trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming in its approach, matching sensory tools to the child’s specific profile rather than applying a generic set of strategies.