Everybody processes sensory information differently. When the mismatch between a person and their environment is big enough, everyday places become exhausting or impossible.
What sensory processing means in everyday terms. How a person takes in and responds to sound, light, touch, movement, smell and the internal signals of their own body. Some people need much more input to feel settled; others are overwhelmed by an ordinary amount of it. Neither is a deficit — but a mismatch with the environment has real consequences.
Assessment combines interview, structured questionnaires and observation across the settings that matter. We'll explain which tool we're using and why, before we use it.
Building a sensory profile — a written picture of what supports regulation for this person and what erodes it, specific enough to act on.
Strategies that fit the actual environment. A strategy that requires a quiet room is useless in an open-plan workplace. We build strategies around the settings the person is really in.
Sensory diets and regulation plans that are realistic about time, cost and who has to implement them.
Working with the people around the person — family, schools, support workers, employers — because a plan only one person knows about isn't a plan.
We use neurodiversity-affirming language and framing throughout. The goal is regulation and participation on the person's terms, not compliance or masking.
Under the NDIS, sensory assessment and strategy work sits in Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living.
Sensory equipment is generally assistive technology and may be funded separately — see assistive technology.
A written sensory profile and regulation plan: what this person's sensory preferences and sensitivities are, what that means in each of the settings they spend time in, and a specific set of strategies for each one.
Plus a shorter version for anyone else who needs it — a page a support worker, family member or employer can actually use.
A structured written picture of how a person responds to sensory input across the senses, and what that means practically. It is built from questionnaires, interview and observation, and is used to design strategies rather than to label anyone.
No. Sensory processing differences don't disappear at eighteen — adults have usually just built more workarounds. Call and tell us who the assessment is for and we'll say straight away whether we're the right practice for it.
A combination of conversation, standardised questionnaires and observing the person in the settings where things are hardest. It is not a single test.
Yes — a sensory profile and a set of strategies per setting, plus a short version for the people around you.
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