About the SENSE Program
Supporting and Enhancing NICU Sensory Experiences (SENSE) is a comprehensive approach to ensuring multi-modal positive sensory exposures across hospitalization for high-risk infants in the NICU. The SENSE program provides education to engage families in providing developmentally appropriate positive sensory exposures to optimize outcomes for their infant(s). Topics of education include: medical terminology, fetal development in the final months of pregnancy, the sensory environment of the NICU, sensory development, reading infant cues, identifying readiness for sensory exposures, how to provide different sensory exposures, and a week-by-week guide* on specific doses and timing of sensory exposures to ensure consistent and developmentally appropriate delivery of positive sensory experiences at each postmenstrual age. The sensory interventions are designed to be provided by parents, but the medical team and/or volunteers can also be engaged to ensure the sensory needs of each infant are met.
The SENSE Program is currently offering training workshops!
Current available dates for training workshops are listed below. We offer both individual and hospital trainings.
Register by clicking the date below that you are interested in:
Participating individually:
Participating as a hospital:
Don’t see a date and time that works for you?
Send an email to nicutherapylab@gmail.com and make a request, as dates are being added regularly (especially to tailor times for our international colleagues).
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