01/09/2025
🎉 A Very Happy Birthday to Joy High! 🎉
Joy is one of our much-loved trustees here at Sensory People and her contribution to children and families across the West Midlands is remarkable.
She was the very first Occupational Therapist in the region to deliver Ayres Sensory Integration Therapy — back in the 1980s in a disused eye hospital in Wolverhampton, with nothing more than old mattresses for crash mats! Trained in the USA, South Africa and the UK, Joy paved the way for countless others, including our own Chair, Marion Rogerson, who was inspired by her work to train in Sensory Integration and eventually establish Sensory People.
Joy was also a founder member of SINetwork that went on to become ASI Wise and she is the author of the COOL KIDS programme, which continues to be at the heart of the work we do today with more than 50 children each week.
Joy, your vision, dedication and pioneering spirit have shaped everything we do. We couldn’t be more grateful — and we couldn’t be prouder to celebrate your 80th Birthday with you!
Ayres' Sensory Integration WISE Joy High