Webinar: Understanding and supporting sensory inclusion of neurodivergent students and students with additional support needs in school

Content

This webinar will be presented by Kyleigh Melville, a PhD Candidate from The University of Edinburgh and former ASN Educator. This webinar will introduce how neurodivergent people process sensory information and highlight specific challenges they can experience when engaging in school environments.

This webinar will also draw on insights from Kyleigh's ongoing PhD research on how multi-sensory environments (eg, sensory rooms) are designed and used with neurodivergent students and students with additional support needs. This webinar will also outline some strategies and suggestions on how schools can support sensory inclusion for these student groups.

Target Audience

Specialist teachers, teaching assistants, early years teachers, Complex Needs teachers and mainstream Primary/Secondary teachers

Presenter

Kyleigh Melville is an ESRC-funded PhD Candidate supervised cross-institutionally at The University of Edinburgh and University of Birmingham. Her research explores school staff and neurodivergent students' experiences with multi-sensory environments using mixed, community-informed, and participatory approaches. Kyleigh's research is supported by a Lived Experience Advisory Group comprised of neurodivergent adults, children and young people and education practitioners. Alongside her PhD, Kyleigh is the Media and Communications Officer for the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre and an Early Career Research Associate on the Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (E-DLD) Project. Her lived experience being from a mixed-race, mixed-neurotype family and her 8 years of experience working with neurodivergent students in mainstream, special, third sector and home education in England drives her passion in conducting research with and for neurodivergent communities.