Dates: May 21, 28, June 4, 18, 25, 2026 at 2pm ET each time

Description: Most training on sensory modulation stays at the level of checklists, sensory strategies, and over-simplified profiles. This advanced 5-part webinar series is designed for clinicians who want a deeper, more integrated understanding of sensory modulation; rooted in neurobiology, development, relationship, and clinical reasoning. Across five 90-minute webinars, participants will move beyond “what strategies to use” toward understanding why sensory modulation breaks down, how it changes across development, and how context, emotion, and co-regulation shape sensory responses. This series is ideal for occupational therapists, psychologists, speech therapists, and allied professionals working with children who present with complex regulation, anxiety, trauma histories, or neurodivergent profiles.

What Makes This Series Different

• Moves beyond sensory checklists and profiles
• Integrates neurobiology, development, emotion, and relationship
• Emphasizes clinical reasoning with practical straregies
• Embeds application in every session without reducing complexity
• Provides a practical, reusable clinical mapping tool
• Aligns with DIR, trauma-informed, and neuro-affirming frameworks

Outline / Agenda:

Session 1 May 21, 2026: Re-Defining Sensory Modulation
Participants explore sensory modulation as a dynamic nervous system process rather than a sensory input problem. The session reframes sensory behaviors as adaptive attempts at regulation and introduces the neurophysiological foundations of modulation.

Session 2 May 28, 2026: Development, Arousal, and Individual Differences
This session examines how sensory modulation emerges and evolves across development, integrating arousal, motor planning, interoception, and individual differences (DIR/Floortime perspective). Participants learn to distinguish developmentally expected modulation challenges from clinically significant difficulties.

Session 3 June 4, 2026: Sensory Modulation in Context
Focusing on real-world complexity, this webinar explores how emotional load, cognitive demand, anxiety, transitions, and trauma can mimic or amplify sensory modulation difficulties. Participants develop stronger differential reasoning skills to avoid misattribution.

Session 4 June 18, 2026: Co-Regulation, Attachment, and Meaning
Sensory modulation is explored through a relational lens. Participants examine how attachment patterns, adult nervous systems, and co-regulation shape sensory experiences, and why sensory strategies often fail without relational safety.

Session 5 June 25, 2026: Mapping Sensory Modulation – A Clinical Reasoning Tool
The final webinar introduces a hybrid clinical mapping framework that integrates sensory, emotional, relational, developmental, and environmental factors. This tool helps clinicians organize complex observations, prioritize intervention targets, and maintain ethical, neuro-affirming practice.

Learning Objectives:

Session 1: Re-Defining Sensory Modulation – From Input to Regulation

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe sensory modulation as a dynamic, state-dependent nervous system regulation process rather than a fixed sensory profile
2. Interpret sensory-related behaviors as adaptive regulatory responses within varying arousal states
3. Differentiate sensory modulation from related concepts such as sensory discrimination, arousal regulation, and the window of tolerance.

Session 2: Development, Arousal, and Individual Differences

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Explain how sensory modulation capacity changes across developmental stages and levels of regulatory maturity
2. Integrate developmental level, arousal patterns, and individual differences when analyzing sensory modulation challenges

Session 3: Sensory Modulation in Context – When It’s Not Just Sensory

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Differentiate between sensory modulation difficulties and dysregulation driven by anxiety, transitions, cognitive load, or trauma-related factors
2. Analyze how environmental and contextual demands influence sensory modulation across settings

Session 4: Co-Regulation, Attachment, and the Meaning of Sensory Experience

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Explain how co-regulation, attachment patterns, and caregiver nervous system states influence sensory modulation
2. Apply relationally informed approaches to support sensory modulation within everyday interactions and routines

Session 5: Mapping Sensory Modulation – A Hybrid Clinical Reasoning Tool

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Use a multi-domain clinical mapping framework to organize sensory, emotional, relational, developmental, and environmental information.
2. Prioritize intervention targets using ethical, neuro-affirming, and mechanism-based clinical reasoning.

Research articles:

1. Kandlur, N. R., Fernandes, A. C., Gerard, S. R., Rajiv, S., & Quadros, S. (2023).
   Sensory modulation interventions for adults with mental illness: A scoping review. Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 36(2), 57–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/15691861231204896
2. Leech, K., Stapleton, P., & Patching, A. (2024).
   A roadmap to understanding interoceptive awareness and post-traumatic stress disorder: A scoping review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1355442.
   https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1355442
3. Smigielski, O., Reisenfeld, K., & Prusnek, L. (2024).
   The impact and relevance of sensory modulation-related occupational therapy interventions on emotional regulation in preparation for readiness to change for individuals who are incarcerated and have experienced trauma. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health.
   https://doi.org/10.1080/0164212X.2024.2308289
4. Forsberg, K., Sutton, D., Stjernswärd, S., Bejerholm, U., & Argentzell, E. (2023).
   Experiences of participating in a group-based sensory modulation intervention for mental health service users. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy.
   https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2023.2294767
5. Schulz, S. E., Luszawski, M., Hannah, K. E., & Stevenson, R. A. (2023).
   Sensory gating in neurodevelopmental disorders: A scoping review. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51, 1005–1019.
   https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01058-9

Assessment: Completion of 15-point questionnaire and Feedback sheet

Pending AOTA Approval. CEU Certificate provided for OT’s. Certificate of attendance for other attendees

Provider Name: The Maude Le Roux Academy

Presenter: Maude Le Roux, OTR/L, SIPT, ADHD-RSP, DIR Champion and Expert Training Leader

Bio: Maude Le Roux is a global trainer in multiple methodologies and a mentor to therapists from multidisciplinary teams. She opened her practice, A Total Approach in Glen Mills, PA, USA in 2001. Maude started her training career in 2007 and opened her online academy in 2019. She has designed the Developmental Pathways Model (DPM), which she applies to her own unique assessment and intervention protocol for major diagnosis such as Dyspraxia, ADHD and Executive Functions, Autism, Reading and Writing Disorders, and Trauma and Attachment. Maude served 9 years on the Board of Directors for ATTACh and currently serves on their Advisory Board. She also serves on the Advisory Board for LSWorks (Neuralign program). She is a co-author of two books and more recently wrote a chapter on Trauma and the Body in “Healing Connections” which launched in September 2024. Maude received an award for “Continued child advocacy” through the ATTACh organization in September 2024. She also received the Champion Award through ICDL in November 2024. Maude has a “whole child” approach to care and intervention and equipping the child, while empowering the parent is at the core of who she is as a clinician and trainer.

Special Needs Accommodation: We invite anyone who may need a specific accommodation to contact [email protected] and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Cancellation Policy:

Payment is due in full upon registration. Contact [email protected] for any questions in this regard.

• Cancellations up to 30 days prior: $25 administration fee
• Cancellations up to 2 weeks prior: 25% fee
• Cancellations within 2 weeks of event: 50% fee
  For questions, please email [email protected]

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Educators

Educational Level: Advanced

Instructional Methods: PowerPoint, Group Discussion, Video

Contact Hours: 7 hours, 30 minutes

Fee: $295

 Maude and Charl Le Roux own the Maude Le Roux Academy and thus the proceeds of this course will cover operational expenses as well as provide income for Maude and Charl Le Roux.