Sue Allen is a Consultant Occupational Therapist based in Singapore and the UK.

Sue is a clinician, lecturer and researcher. Sue has worked as an Occupational Therapist for 27 years in both hospital, school and community settings and has a keen interest in improving quality of life for children and their families. Sue served on the SI Network Board of directors from 2005 and was Chairman from 2008 to 2013. Sue is a marker for SI2/3 and 4 and a mentor for SI4 and a Recognised Lecturer with University of Ulster. Sue was awarded her Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner Certificate (2005) and a Sensory Integration Network Fellowship (2013)

Sue will be speaking on: 5, 9, 21, 53… how many senses do we have, how do they work and what do they do?

Alison Neal is the Director of Midlands Occupational Therapy and provides specialist occupational therapy services for children and young adults with a range of difficulties.

Alison is an advanced practitioner in sensory integration therapy; she has several years experience of providing post graduate training to other therapists on this subject and has co-authored a book on sensory movement breaks. Alison works with families, children and young people at home and in a variety of mainstream or special schools and colleges to find solutions to everyday problems that actually work and can be implemented at home or school. She can also offer assessments for EHC plans and tribunals where necessary.

Alison will be speaking on: Specific strategies to use at home and at school to help individuals who experience sensory differences.

Laura Graham is an Occupational Therapist and Advanced Practitioner in Sensory Integration Therapy.

Laura qualified as an occupational therapist in 2003. Her career has included specialist roles within a NHS community adult neurodevelopmental and learning disability team and later working as a community paediatric occupational therapist she was responsible for the assessment and treatment of individuals with a range of conditions such as; autism spectrum disorder, developmental coordination disorder, cerebral palsy, developmental delay and other conditions which impact on a child’s ability to complete their everyday activities.

Laura will be speaking on: Understanding sensory processing disorder.

Sandra Beale-Ellis is a writer, teacher, speaker and successful businesswoman who happens to be autistic, is a doctor of education and has survived childhood cancer and subsequent medical anomalies.

She believes everyone has a story to tell and it’s these stories which inspire, motivate and connect us as human beings. With her academic research interests lying firmly in auto-ethnography, and blogging under the auspices of Sensing The Simple Life, she has always been completely open with who she is, and never afraid to be truthful to her audience about the highs and lows of her life in autism and beyond. She was clinically diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 2010.

Sandra will be speaking on: My sensory day – the impact of SPD on daily life, development and learning for autistic individuals