The webinar will cover the following aspects of sensory storytelling:
- Adapting books in different ways to take account of different needs and different goals
- Choosing props to convey meaning and encourage interaction
- How and when to use your props as you tell the story
- Favourite sensory props for autumn time
- Multi-tasking as a sensory storyteller
Storyteller Ailie Finlay (founder of My Kind of Book) has been telling sensory folktales for nearly thirty years. She specialises in storytelling for people with additional needs.
Target Audience – (Q)TVIs, Teachers, Classroom Assistants, and Staff from Nurseries and Schools supporting children with ASN or complex ASN and library staff.
Presenter – Ailie Finlay, My Kind of Book, runs sensory storytelling sessions and CPD workshops regularly in ASN schools and care settings and for the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scottish Book Trust and NHS Lothian. In 2020 she founded the not-for-profit organisation My Kind of Book. My Kind of Book researches and creates accessible books and stories for children with additional needs.
This webinar will take place hot on the heels of My Kind of Book’s Accessible Book & Story Festival, 11-12 September 2026.”
