All About Sleep & OT Practice – Sensory processing and sleep. Webinar 4
Soothe the senses, support the sleep. This session explores the relationship between sensory processing, arousal, regulation and sleep. Learn how sensory factors influence settling, staying asleep, and sleep quality — and discover evidence-informed strategies to assess and support sensory comfort across age groups and conditions.
This is the fourth instalment in a five-part CPD program designed to elevate your occupational therapy practice through the science of sleep. Discover how sleep impacts health, participation, and therapy outcomes — and how OTs can play a vital role in sleep assessment and support across all ages and settings.
Program Overview
Sleep is amazing. Sleep + OT is even more amazing. Good sleep underpins every aspect of good health, well-being, participation and performance. Poor sleep can be devastating for our clients and their families and can completely undermine the great things that occupational therapists offer.
OTs need to know about sleep – to understand how it impacts our assessments and interventions, and to discover and share the important, unique and diverse scope of practice that we can bring to individual and family-centred sleep solutions. When we learn all about sleep, and apply our OT lens, we can take sleep support to a higher level of evidence-informed, client-centred collaborative practice.
In this series, you will learn about Sleep (and circadian science) and will be supported to apply this knowledge to your clinical practice – all ages, all conditions, all practice settings.
Session 4 (Sue McCabe) – live session Monday 1 September, 12.30 AEST
Sensory processing and sleep. In this session Sue will provide an overview of current models of understanding of sensory processing and sensory regulation with focus on impact on clients’ arousal, vigilance, readiness for sleep and sleep quality and maintenance. Again, this session will include current evidence and practical strategies for assessing and supporting sensory comfort for settling and sleep, and will explore relevance to clients of all ages, all conditions within context of the ICF.
By attending this session participants will:
- Understand how sensory processing and regulation affect arousal, readiness for sleep, and sleep maintenance.
- Learn practical, evidence-informed strategies for assessing and supporting sensory comfort to improve sleep outcomes for clients of all ages and abilities.
- Have the opportunity to explore and consider application of the learnings to their own client groups and practice settings
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This series is relevant for OTs at all stages of their career.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
DATE
Monday 01 September 2025
TIMES
12:30pm (AEST)
Log-in from 12:20pm (AEST
VENUE
Zoom – login details will be emailed to you the week prior to the webinar
CPD HOURS
Total CPD claimable workshop hours: 1.5
A certificate of attendance will be issued upon completion of the full course. Please allow up to 48 hours for the certificate to appear in your CPD tracker.
ACCESS
Participants will be able to access the course materials online in their OTA account for the event and for a further 12 weeks after the event.
REGISTRATION FEES & INCLUSIONS
EARLY BIRD FEES: Register on or before 16 July 2025
OTA Member: $54
Student New Graduate: $49
Non Member: $70
(All pricing is inclusive of GST)
STANDARD FEES: Register from 17 July 2025
OTA Member: $60
Student / New Graduate: $54
Non Member: $78
(All pricing is inclusive of GST)
*Registrations close 27 August 2025,11.55pm AEST.
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DISCLAIMER
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS (T&C)
T&C's are available here
CONTACT US
Please direct all enquiries to info@otaus.com.au or phone 1300 682 878
Presented By
Sue McCabe
BSc, MSc, PhD
Graduating in WA in 1980, Sue has worked in neuro and spinal rehab, community paediatrics, and assistive technology (home mods, seating and lying positioning). During her 20+years in AT she noted the often-devastating impact that sleep problems had on clients and their caregivers, and the gaps in allied health knowledge and services around this. This drove her MSc and PhD studies into the diverse factors affecting sleep of children with complex neuro-motor conditions, with a focus on sleep and thermoregulation. With a Churchill Fellowship, she travelled to the UK and Canada to learn from experts in sleep/disability and has continued to collaborate on international sleep training and research projects. She has recently ceased clinical practice and now focuses on knowledge sharing (training, peer supervision, writing) with OT and other allied health and sleep research colleagues. Sue loves the ICF as a framework for understanding collaborative action to support sleep of people of all ages, all conditions. She loves translating sleep & circadian science through the unique scope of our person-centred OT lens. She loves the idea of developing a strong community of sleep knowledge and practice for OTs.