Services
Sensory-informed education, training, and consultation
Bridging The Sensory Gap provides a comprehensive range of sensory-informed education and consulting services for families, professionals, schools, healthcare organizations, and community agencies — practical, evidence-informed strategies that create lasting, positive outcomes.
Our Philosophy
At Bridging The Sensory Gap, we believe that understanding sensory processing has the power to transform lives. When caregivers, educators, professionals, and communities are equipped with the right knowledge and practical strategies, individuals with sensory processing differences are better supported to reach their fullest potential.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between research and real-world application by providing education, training, consultation, and advocacy that foster confidence, inclusion, and meaningful participation in everyday life.
What We Offer
Whether through caregiver education, professional development, organizational consultation, public speaking, or program development, our goal is to empower those who support individuals with sensory processing differences.
1:1 Instruction
Caregiver Training
$150.00 / hour
Empowering parents and caregivers with practical, evidence-informed strategies to better understand sensory processing and confidently support their child’s success at home, school, and in the community. You share what you’re seeing in everyday life; together we explore how sensory processing may be contributing, and identify supports you can try within your family’s routines.
Understand your child. Recognize their needs. Know how to support them.
Group Program · 8 Weeks
Sensory Super Squad
$360.00 / course
An engaging group-based caregiver education program that combines hands-on learning, discussion, and real-world application to help families build effective sensory support strategies. Children and the adults who support them learn about sensory processing together and develop a shared language for body signals, regulation, and individual needs.
Discover. Understand. Connect.
Organizations
Professional Training & Consultation
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Customized training and consulting for schools, healthcare providers, childcare programs, nonprofits, and community organizations seeking to create more sensory-informed environments and improve outcomes.
Understanding changes environments.
Community
Public Speaking
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Dynamic presentations for conferences, organizations, schools, churches, and community groups, sharing practical insights on sensory processing, disability inclusion, caregiver empowerment, and creating more inclusive communities.
Partnerships
Program Development
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Partnering with organizations to design innovative sensory-focused programs, improve accessibility, and strengthen services for individuals with disabilities and their families.
Caregiver Training is individualized unpaid caregiver instruction and is not occupational therapy treatment. Pricing listed in compliance with county contract requirements.
Why Sensory Processing?
Sometimes behavior is only the part we can see.
Your child’s nervous system is constantly receiving information from their body and the world around them.
Touch. Movement. Body position. Sounds. Sights. Smells. Tastes. Internal body sensations.
The brain has to receive, organize, and make sense of all of that information so your child can respond effectively within their environment. When sensory processing is difficult, the effects can show up throughout everyday life.
You may notice challenges with:
- Dressing and personal care
- Eating and mealtimes
- Sleep
- Transitions
- Play
- Attention and learning
- Emotional regulation
- Social participation
- Body awareness
- Movement and coordination
- Motor planning
- Safety
- Participation at home and in the community
Understanding sensory processing doesn’t mean assuming every difficult behavior is sensory. It means becoming curious about what your child’s nervous system may be contributing — so you can respond with greater understanding and more appropriate support.
Why Specialized Knowledge Matters
Sensory processing is complex.
It is more than being sensitive to sounds, avoiding certain textures, or needing more movement. Understanding sensory processing requires looking at how the nervous system receives, organizes, and integrates sensory information — and how that processing affects a child’s ability to participate in everyday life.
30+
years of pediatric occupational therapy experience, with extensive experience and advanced training in sensory processing and sensory integration.
That’s where an occupational therapy background matters. Bridging The Sensory Gap was created to bring that specialized knowledge to families — so you can better understand what you’re seeing in your child and make more informed decisions about how to support them.
Tammy Ross, OTR/L, is a pediatric occupational therapist whose practice is grounded in evidence-informed occupational therapy and the principles of Ayres Sensory Integration®, with a focus on caregiver education, sensory processing, regulation, motor planning (praxis), and participation in meaningful daily occupations.
An Important Distinction
Individualized Unpaid Caregiver Instruction is not occupational therapy treatment. An occupational therapy background and specialized knowledge of sensory processing and sensory integration inform the education and instruction provided. The service itself is focused on increasing your knowledge and ability to understand and support your child’s disability-related sensory processing needs within everyday life.
You know your child. I know sensory processing.
Tell me a little about what you’re seeing at home, at school, or in the community — and we’ll figure out the right starting point together.