Our environment is filled with different sensory stimulations, and it is okay to feel overwhelmed - because I do too!

I dedicated my honours research project to investigating the relationship between children’s interoceptive awareness and self-regulation. The mystery and complexity behind interoception, that is, the sense of ourselves, draw my deep interest in this topic.

I have worked with a wide variety of children from Hong Kong and Melbourne, through informal volunteering and structured fieldwork. In addition to my research project, I developed and delivered an interoceptive awareness training program for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders and/or Autism diagnoses in CREST (Hong Kong), a private paediatric occupational therapy service provider. I also have experience working with children and young people with intellectual disabilities, sensory processing and integration challenges, social anxiety, social-emotional difficulties, and regulation and behavioural issues. I believe that input from families, and significant stakeholders, along with the needs of our little ones, makes the best comprehensive care plan.

I have participated in the international data collection project for the development of a new paediatric sensory assessment tool - Evaluation of Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI). Through participation in such a project, I was qualified to be one of the very first EASI testers in Hong Kong. Moreover, I am a certified Irlen® Screener who can identify people with Irlen Syndrome, a perceptual processing disorder relevant to light sensitivity. Currently, I am working on my way become fully certified in ASI, hoping to deliver ASI intervention to children with sensory integration difficulties.