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Sensory Uncertainty with Clare Ward and Dr Jamie Galpin

The SENDcast

Release Date: 01/02/2025

Sensory Uncertainty with Clare Ward and Dr Jamie Galpin show art Sensory Uncertainty with Clare Ward and Dr Jamie Galpin

The SENDcast

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More Episodes

Happy New Year! As we prepare for a new term, I wanted to share the first episode of 2025 with you.

In this episode ‘Sensory Uncertainty’, my guests Clare Ward and Dr. Jamie Galpin, Speech and Language Therapist and Developmental Psychologist respectively, provide invaluable insights. They discuss their new book, My Senses Are Like Cups, which uses a compelling metaphor to help listeners understand how sensory experiences impact emotions and behaviour.

This engaging metaphor illustrates how our sensory experiences - everything we see, hear, feel, smell, touch, and taste - can be understood as water filling or emptying cups of various sizes.

Clare and Jamie emphasise the importance of recognising our internal body sensations (interoceptive sense) and how this awareness can significantly ease school-based anxiety for young people. They also introduce their 3S framework, with sensory uncertainty at its core, highlighting how our senses shape our experiences in the world.

Listen now to gain a deeper understanding of how we can support ourselves and those around us in recognising and managing sensory uncertainty.

 

About Clare Ward

Clare Ward has been working in the world of SEN for the last 30 years as a teaching assistant, Speech and Language Therapist, specialist social worker, researcher, NHS manager, education advisor and CBT Practitioner.  She specialises in working with young people with social communication difficulties, some of whom have a diagnosis of autism. 

 

About Dr Jamie Galpin

Jamie is a chartered developmental psychologist with over 20 years of experience in inclusion, psychology, innovation, and learning. He builds frameworks around which practice can sit, bringing coherence and connecting disparate or fractured notions and concepts. as a founding member of special networks, Jamie challenges traditional hierarchies of evidence and co-creates solutions for social inequalities as well as addressing universal needs. 

Clare and Jamie met when they both started working for the same inner London multidisciplinary outreach team  – supporting teachers and young people with a diagnosis of autism.  

 

NEW BOOK PUBLISHED

Clare and Jamie released a new book 'My senses are like cups: What to do when everything feels too much or not enough' in summer 2024. Think about our senses being like cups and everything we see, hear, feel, smell, touch, and taste as we move about is like water going into our cups.

Some of our cups might be big and some might be small. Whether big or small, we like it best when our cup is filled enough so that it's just right for us! We are all different. We need just the right amount of information to feel good!

Help your child aged 7+ think about, explore and develop ways to manage sensory overload and feeling under stimulated with quirky cartoons that visually illustrate the approach. Sections on each of the eight senses (including your internal 'body signals' like hunger) feature noticing and knowledge-building activities to help kids get their own, unique, senses cups feeling 'just right' for them. Get going on some sensory experiments!

 

Contact Clare & Jamie

www.specialnetworks.co.uk

[email protected]

https://x.com/UniversalSuppo3

 

Useful Links

My Senses Are Like Cups 

The Anxiety Workbook for Supporting Teens Who Learn Differently

 

 

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