A comprehensive occupational therapy support
From April 2025, GriffinOT has launched our new subscription membership packages. These packages will include access to ALL of our content. Yes you read this correctly – everything! Members can learn about sensory needs, how to support fine motor skills or the easiest way to teach handwriting. The membership also includes access to monthly Ask an OT sessions with Kim. Members will have access to
GriffinOT Membership Subscription Pricing
Membership is open to individuals and schools. The membership is an annual subscription. When paying by credit card, the subscription will automatically renew on the anniversary of your first payment. We can issue invoices to schools, however please note due to the additional administration required, the minimum order for invoices is £200.
Who is the package designed for?
The GriffinOT membership is perfect for primary schools. The training is perfect for teachers and TAs. Staff can use the resources to create programmes for their children. The sensory resources will support you to create a sensory inclusive school. The package will meet all of your universal and targeted occupational therapy needs.
Whilst the sensory content is relevant for secondary schools, the fine motor and handwriting sections of the package are less relevant for older children. If children still need help with their fine motor skills in secondary, Kim recommends that the focus is on functional skills like laundry, cooking, and cleaning, and to transition the child to an electronic recording option.
Single Purchase
- 12 months’ access
- Access to all training
- Certificates included
- Sensory Aware Training
- Fine Motor Skills Training
- Write Rules Handwriting
- Fine Motor Skills Programme
Annual Subscription
- Annual subscription
- Renews annually
- Complete OT support
- Certificates included
- Sensory Aware Training
- Fine Motor Skills Training
- Write Rules Handwriting
- Fine Motor Skills Programme
- Monthly support sessions
School Price
- Annual subscription
- 15 staff
- Complete OT support
- Certificates included
- Sensory Aware Training
- Fine Motor Skills Training
- Write Rules Handwriting
- Fine Motor Skills Programme
- Monthly support sessions
- Additional staff £10pp
What are participants saying about Sensory Processing with GriffinOT?
“The material was clear and understandable, even being unfamiliar with certain terms prior to the course. The videos were engaging and real life examples aided in understanding the topic further.”
An excellent, user friendly course. Very informative and taught in small sections to help understanding. Would highly recommend to both parents and school staff.
Amazing training that you can do at your own pace. Really easy to navigate and easy to go back and watch videos again if you are unsure of anything. I love that it shows you your progress.
“This introductory course to SPD is perfectly pitched: it deals with very complex concepts in a clear, direct way which is accessible to all. I will be adding the full course to my team’s CPD. Many thanks to GriffinOT”
“I found this course really easy to follow and liked how you could stop and come back to the course over a period of time in order to complete it.”
A comprehensive break down of everything sensory. This course takes you from zero to a hundred and explains everything along the way. I have so much knowledge now and feel ready to apply it all in the classroom.
A clear and informative course. I learnt from every module, especially the neurology. I highly recommend to anyone working in a special schools and ARPs, to have a more in depth understanding of our children. Thank you Kim, I thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience!
What’s included in the membership?
Sensory Processing Awareness
At GriffinOT I want to help you to know how you can support sensory differences. If you’re an educator or parent helping a child with additional sensory needs, or observing sensory behaviours you don’t understand then you are in the right place! My Sensory Processing Awareness training courses and coaching are designed specifically for you. You can read more here, but in summary the courses will
Supporting fine motor skill development
Fine motor skills are all of the small movements our hands and fingers make completing fine motor activities. Doing up buttons, squeezing toothpaste onto a tooth brush, and cutting with scissors are examples of fine motor activities. Handwriting is a fine motor skill children need to be successful with. In fact, any activity that you do with your hands and fingers relies on your these skills.
Our fine motor skills programme is designed to support children who may have skill delays. It’s perfect for schools looking to train and support staff running fine motor groups and to help with poor handwriting. It includes specific activities for handwriting, scissor skills and development of pencil grasp. Each activity has been thoughtfully crafted by occupational therapist Kim Griffin. There is clear progression and a focus on functional fine motor skills. You can learn more about the fine motor programme here.
Write Rules – Making Handwriting Easy
Write Rules is the ultimate handwriting solution! The complete two year programme (scheme of work) teaches children how to form and write their letters correctly. It’s fun and engaging. Best of all, it contains all of the resources teachers need to run the lessons. All you need to provide are the children, pencils, paper, playdough and enthusiasm. (You also need an internet connection and screen but we assume this is already in your classroom). I
Write Rules is designed for reception (preschool) to year 2 aged children. You can learn more about Write Rules here. If you’re working with older children who are still struggling with handwriting, Kim highly recommends a transition to electronic recording.
Details on our membership
The subscription gives access to all GriffinOT paid content, this includes occupational therapy supports for
- Sensory needs
- Handwriting
- Fine motor skills
- Gross motor skills
- Dyspraxia
- Monthly live Ask Kim sessions
When will I receive access after payment?
Individual purchases will receive their access coupon within 15 minutes of payment, this will arrive by email. Please mark GriffinOT as safe to ensure you receive renewal reminders as well.
Schools will receive their access coupons within two working days of payment via credit card. Invoice orders will receive access within two working days of receipt of a PO number or notification of payment. Further details on school subscriptions is available below.
When will my subscription renew?
If you have paid by credit card, your annual subscription will renew annually on the anniversary of purchase. You will receive a reminder email a month and a week before the renewal payment is taken. You can cancel your subscription by using the link in the renewal email or by replying to the renewal email and letting us know you don’t want to renew. Once your renewal payment is received you will receive a new coupon to extend your access.
If you choose to cancel your subscription, but renew at a later date, you will need to renew at the current pricing. This may be more than your original subscription amount.
School subscriptions
Subscription payment logistics
- The school subscription provides access to fifteen (15) staff members. More places can be purchased for £10 per person on the same invoice.
- For credit card payments, access coupons will be issued within 2 working days.
- When payment is requested via invoice, coupons will be issued to schools once a PO number is provided, or when payment is made.
- If your payment system doesn’t send an automatic email to advise of BACS, it helps if you email to let us know that you have made the payment. Otherwise we may not see the payment until we do our termly account reconcile.
- Please note, payment by cheque can take an additional month to process, and it is incredibly helpful if you email us to let us know when you have sent the cheque so we can follow this up.
- For invoices, the subscription purchase date is the date the access coupons are issued – depending on the individual school, MAT or LEA payment processes, this will either be when a PO is issued, or when payment is made.
School responsibility
- The primary contact person (usually the one who makes payment or requests the invoice) is responsible for issuing access coupons to relevant staff.
- If you need access to the content for a specific training day, please let us know when you request your invoice and leave adequate time to either generate a PO number or for payment to be made.
- Allocated staff can change at the end of each subscription period, but cannot be changed partway through the subscription year. For example, if a subscription is purchased on 5 April 2025, once you have allocated all staff places, allocated staff accounts cannot change until your renewal on 5 April 2026. On the subscription renewal date, you can allocate the places to the same or different staff for the next subscription period (i.e., April 2026-2027)
- Staff do not have to join immediately, but the coupons will only give 12 months’ access to the content from the subscription starting date. So, if your subscription was purchased on the 5th April 2025, all staff will lose access to content on the 4th of April 2026, regardless of when they activated their coupon.
Staff responsibility
- Each staff member must create their own account using the coupon solution.
- It is important that staff are logged in on their own account when completing training so that they can keep track of their individual progress and also receive their completion certificates.
- Staff can reset their password using the reset link if needed.
What does the training look like?
The GriffinOT training and programmes are all pre-recorded and online. The free membership level (below) lets you see how the platform works, all paid membership content works in the same way. In the paid membership, you can ask Kim questions in the modules and also attend the Ask Kim sessions to ask your question in person. You can start and continue the training at any time and progress at your own pace. For the sensory training, there are workbooks to help to enhance your learning.
Technical requirements
The training does not work on Internet Explorer as this is no longer supported by the training platform. It displays well on Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla and Microsoft Edge (explorer replacement). We recommend you watch the videos on a desktop computer for the best viewing computer.
Refunds
I am so confident that the training will help you that provided you have completed less than 50% of the training, I offer a money back guarantee within the first 2 months of purchase. I know the training will increase your knowledge, skills and confidence when supporting children’s sensory and motor skills needs. If it doesn’t just send me an email to letting me know why it didn’t and I’ll refund your purchase.
Frequently asked questions??
This short video covers our most commonly asked questions! If it doesn’t answer yours, please drop Kim an email.
Single Purchase
- 12 months’ access
- Access to all training
- Certificates included
- Sensory Aware Training
- Fine Motor Skills Training
- Write Rules Handwriting
- Fine Motor Skills Programme
Annual Subscription
- Annual subscription
- Renews annually
- Complete OT support
- Certificates included
- Sensory Aware Training
- Fine Motor Skills Training
- Write Rules Handwriting
- Fine Motor Skills Programme
- Monthly support sessions
School Price
- Annual subscription
- 15 staff
- Complete OT support
- Certificates included
- Sensory Aware Training
- Fine Motor Skills Training
- Write Rules Handwriting
- Fine Motor Skills Programme
- Monthly support sessions
- Additional staff £10pp
Free membership level
Yes, there is a free membership level which includes access to some of our content. It is a great way to try out the GriffinOT content, no credit card is required to join the free level. You will also receive a certificate for Level 1 of the sensory training. It does not include access to the live Ask Kim sessions.
Free Trial
- Trial before you buy
- Introduction to sensory processing
- Trial of fine motor programme
- First five weeks of Write Rules handwriting
What is the impact of the training?
Kim is continually monitoring the impact of Sensory Processing with GriffinOT. She presented the results of pre and post knowledge questionnaires at the 2021 Children’s OT Conference (RCOT-CYPF) and the Sensory Integration Education Online Conference. Preliminary results are showing positive trends in participant’s knowledge and confidence scores before and after the training. They also indicate a huge gap between the number of people using sensory strategies and those who are accessing training (91% vs 26%). This discrepancy in use and access to training motivates Kim to continue providing online resources.
You can read the full impact summary here.
Or, if you want to hear how the training helped Becky’s class, you can read her reflection here.
Sensory training – a teacher’s reflection
Becky teaches autistic children in a specialist provision in the UK. She spoke with Kim about her experiences before and after the training. And how the training better equipped her to support the learners in her class.
“The training has helped me to identify sensory needs more accurately. I can consider what sensations might be triggering behaviours. I’m now aware that some sensory behaviours might be covering up or supporting other sensory needs. The training has helped me to understand the differences between sensory sensitivity, slow and seeking. This has enhanced my ability to put the right supports in place for the learners in my class”
You can read Becky’s full reflection here.