Sensory Detective Autism Workshop 
Psychologists, Allied Health Therapists, Support Coordinators, Behaviour Specialists, 
Support Workers, Teachers & Families

The Workshop HANDOUT NOTES will be emailed prior to the event or handed out on the day.

The Sensory Detective® Workshop – Rethink Autism Through a Sensory Lens 

You’re doing everything you were trained to do.

You’re planning.
You’re implementing strategies.
You’re adjusting goals.
You’re collaborating with teams.

And yet—for many autistic children, teens and adults—progress remains fragile, inconsistent, or collapses under pressure.

If this feels familiar, the issue is not your skill, commitment, or effort.

The issue is that most systems are still trying to build skills on top of an unstable nervous system.

What if behaviour, learning, communication and participation aren’t the starting point?

What if they are outcomes—available only when sensory and nervous-system load is understood and reduced?

That is the foundation of the Sensory Detective® Workshop.

This six-hour professional learning experience introduces a regulation-first, neurobiological framework that explains why:

• behaviour plans work briefly, then fail
• therapy gains don’t generalise
• “capacity” disappears under stress
• students can perform one day and shut down the next
• families feel blamed instead of supported
• support teams are working hard—but not together

The Sensory Detective® Framework answers the question everyone is asking: “Why isn’t this support working?”

In therapy rooms, classrooms, homes, workplaces and community settings, participants consistently discover:

• how sensory load, interoception and executive demand interact
• why masking and compliance exhaust autistic capacity
• how regulation loss looks like non-compliance, avoidance or lack of motivation
• why traditional behavioural or skills-first approaches unintentionally increase risk
• how to identify what is actually destabilising the nervous system
• what to change first—before asking for more effort

This workshop is for you if:

You're a clinician or practitioner
– who is seeing repeated burnout, regression or plateauing
– who wants an evidence-aligned framework that makes sense of complexity
– who needs language that holds up in reports, reviews and audits

You’re an educator or early childhood professional
– who sees students cope until they can’t
– who wants to reduce escalation, shutdown and exclusion
– who needs practical, system-level adjustments—not just strategies

You’re a support coordinator or support worker
– who struggles to translate plans into lived success
– who sees participants cycle through providers with limited change
– who wants to understand what actually supports participation

You’re a family member
– who knows your child / adult is trying—but the system keeps missing them
– who is exhausted by being told to do more
- who wants a framework that explains your lived experience

What you will leave with:
• a shared language across disciplines
• a way to see nervous-system load in real time
• clarity about what to prioritise—and what to stop pushing
• practical adjustments that reduce escalation and risk
• renewed confidence that progress is possible when regulation comes first

Most importantly, teams will leave aligned. And alignment is where real, sustainable change begins.

If you are ready to stop asking autistic people to perform through overload—and start building environments, supports and expectations that actually work—this workshop was designed for you.

The Sensory Detective® Workshop
6 hours | Regulation-first | Practical | Evidence-aligned

This is not about doing more.
It’s about doing what works.

Nelle Frances
Autism Education Consultant & Trainer
Creator, Sensory Detective® Framework
Sensory-First Supports that Create Lasting Change

• Cancellation Policy: Notification of cancellation received in writing no less than 7 days prior to the workshop will be refunded. No refunds will be given after that.

Disclaimer: The information, articles and opinions contained in workshops and presentations are those of Nelle Frances, provided for information, general education and support purposes only. The information is not intended to, nor does it, constitute medical or treatment advice. Nelle Frances disclaims any liability arising directly or indirectly from the information provided in her Interactive Sensory Sensitivity Workshop and Keynote Presentations.