What is SI101? 

This engaging, self-paced online course offers a powerful first step into the world of Ayres' Sensory Integration. You’ll explore the eight human senses, learn how they shape behavior and participation, and gain new tools to understand and support children.

✨ Includes hands-on sensory experiments, practical exercises, and reflection prompts.

🎓 Completion of this course qualifies you to continue with other courses we offer such as the ASI® Practitioner Certificate pathway.

Who is this course for?

This course is for you if you’re...

• An Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist or Physiotherapist looking to deepen your sensory understanding
• A Teacher or Educator who wants to make classrooms more inclusive and behavior-friendly
• A Parent seeking clarity, empathy and concrete strategies for your child’s needs

🟪 Benefits for Therapists

✔️ Understand behavior through a sensory lens
✔️ Use new observation tools right away – even without standardized tests
✔️ Learn by doing: embodied insight through guided sensory exercises
✔️ Link theory and practice with real-world relevance
✔️ Take your first step toward official ASI® certification

🟧 Benefits for Educators

✔️ Discover the sensory roots of behavior in the classroom
✔️ Make sense of common challenges like fidgeting, zoning out, or big emotions
✔️ Explore inclusive teaching strategies rooted in neuroscience
✔️ Feel sensory differences first-hand – and gain empathy
✔️ Connect to a growing, research-based approach to inclusion

🟫 Benefits for Parents

✔️ Decode your child’s daily struggles through the sensory system
✔️ Learn simple, effective strategies for home routines
✔️ Understand your child’s “why” – and reduce daily stress
✔️ Strengthen your confidence in supporting neurodivergent needs
✔️ Feel empowered to seek support, advocate, and act

Why now? Why SI101?

• Immediate impact – for your clients, your students, or your child
• Flexible learning – self-paced, mobile-friendly, with lifetime access
• Evidence-based – grounded in neuroscience, Dr Ayres' original research and new research, and clinical experience
• Certification-ready – this course is your ticket to the ASI® Practitioner Certificate

What's included?

📽️ Approximately 4 hours of on-demand video lessons and educational videos

✋ 6+ interactive sensory exercises including our signature "Sensory Quiz" and the "SI Dysfunction Experience"

📔 Digital sensory journal & printable workbook

💡 Real-world examples and case reflections

✅ A live online Q&A session with an ASI expert (offered 4x per year)

📜 Certificate of Completion

🎓 Access to the full ASI® training pathways for therapists, "ASI®Therapy ORIGINAL", and professionals with an educational background such as teachers, educators, special educators, "SI:)Child(:Learning"

What you’ll learn in SI101

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

✅ Define key terms related to sensory integration and distinguish between them clearly

✅ Understand the roots of Ayres Sensory Integration® – how it was developed by Dr. Jean Ayres and how it's deeply embedded in occupational therapy

✅ Gain insight into the brain – including the neurophysiological foundations that explain how sensory processing works

✅ Recognize the role of the senses in child development, learning, behavior, and lifelong participation

✅ Identify Sensory Integration challenges and begin to distinguish between different sensory processing disorder patterns

✅ Know what makes ASI® unique – and how to tell it apart from other "sensory-based" methods

✅ Start thinking like an ASI professional – with a framework you can build on as you pursue further training

Join Now

Ready to understand behavior in a new way?
Start your Ayres' Sensory Integration journey with SI101 and take the first step toward becoming a certified ASI® Practitioner.

👉 Enroll now and unlock the world of Ayres Sensory Integration®
(90-day access – repeatable anytime)