Name: Kathryn SMITH
Profession: Consultant Occupational Therapist
Academic and Professional Qualifications/Membership
1993 BSc [Occupational Therapy] University of Cape Town
2001 Masters Education [Dialectical Behaviour Therapy]
Brief Outline of Career History
Teaching Experience: 20 years
Professional or Industrial Experience: 26 years
Teaching Disciplines: Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing, Occupational Therapy
Lecturing
- International Lecturer 2017 – Current
- Recognised Lecturer, CL-ASI CASI (Certification in Ayres’ Sensory Integration) (www.cl-asi.org)
- Module Lecturer and Tutor ASI Wise CLASI CASI Post Graduate Programme
- Lecturer Ulster University 2013 – 2017
- Master’s Post Graduate Programme in Sensory Integration:
- Lecturer: Sensory Integration I: Foundations & Neuroscience (Adolescents/Adults and Older Adults)Lecturer: Sensory Integration II/III: From Assessment to InterventionMentor: SI IV: Intervention
Current Professional Activities
Director ASI Wise (www.asi-wise.org)
Lecturer CL-ASI (www.cl-asi.org)
Regional Lead EASI INDC Project ASI 2020 Vision (www.easibritishisles.org)
Member – British Association of Occupational Therapists – SW Group and CYPF
Member – American Occupational Therapy Association
Total Number of Publications/Public Output to Date: 15+
Details of Publications/Public Output:
- Shankar, Smith and Jalihal (2013) Sensory processing in people with Asperger syndrome. Learning Disability Practice; 16:2
- Smith (2011) Parenting through the Senses – Innovative Approaches to Sensory Integration Education: Innovative Sensory Integration Practice – Poster 2nd European Congress of Sensory Integration, Portugal
- Brown, Shankar and Smith (2009) Borderline Personality & Sensory Processing Impairment, Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry: July/August
Some Recent Activity
2020 ICEASI Committee Member, Regional Lead, EASI INDC Research Project
2019 ICEASI Committee Member, Regional Lead, EASI INDC Research Project
2018 Presenter, 1st International Sensory Integration Congress, South Africa
ICEASI Committee Member
2017 Invited Lecturer, SAISI, Sensory Integration in Mental Health, Durban, South Africa
2016 Invited Lecturer, 7 Senses, Sensory Integration in Mental Health, Porto, Portugal
2015 Conference Chair European Sensory Integration Congress Birmingham
2014 Sensory Integration in Mental Health Lecturer, Rampton Hospital
2013 Poster Presentation, ESIC, Finland
2012 NAS Sensory Processing Conference – Attendee, Workshop Presenter and Joint Organiser
2012 R2K – International Conference in Sensory Integration Research, Los Angeles, USA – Sensory Integration in MH and SI Innovation: Poster Presentations
2012 Trainee Lecturer Training SI 2/3 – SI Network (UK and Ireland)
2011 Oral Presentation: Sensory Processing in Everyday Life, National Autistic Society Sensory Processing and Autism and Joint Organiser
2011 Healthcare Innovation Expo 2011 – (Invited Presenter)
2011 2nd European Congress of Sensory Integration, Portugal (Seminar & 2 posters)
2011 National Autistic Society Professional Conference – SI Network Stand (2 posters)
2010 Innovate Program – Design Council
2010 Presentation – Bridge 2010 – Workshop (3 posters on stand)
[For brevity, further details of activity and awards before 2010 available on request]
25 – 30% of my work involves supervising, mentoring and training staff and service users from a wide range of organisation eg: support groups, parent groups, health and social care professionals, in NHS and private health and social/residential care providers including local education authorities.