As a music, movement and drama teacher for 25 years (1976-2001), Carol observed many out-of-sync preschoolers. To help them become more competent in their work and play, she began to study sensory processing and sensory integration (“SI”) theory. She learned to help identify her young students’ needs and to steer them into early intervention. In writings and workshops, she explains to parents, educators, and other early childhood professionals how sensory issues play out – and provides fun and functional techniques for addressing them at home and school.
To help families, teachers, and professionals understand SPD in children, she has authored several books, manuals and other publications. Her illustrated book for 8-12 year-olds is The Goodenoughs Get in Sync: 5 Family Members Overcome Their Special Sensory Issues, revised (Sensory World, 2010). Another book geared for children is 101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces (St. Martin’s, 1995). She has written a screening tool for Occupational Therapists to use with early childhood teachers, Preschool Sensory Scan for Educators (or “Preschool SENSE”) and co-authored a manual, Answers to Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration, 3rd edition (Future Horizons, 2007). Her most recent book, co-authored with Joye Newman, M.A., a perceputal motor therapist, is Growing an In-Sync Child: Simple, Fun Activities to Help Every Child Develop, Learn and Grow (Perigee, 2010). (Click http://out-of-sync.child.com/carols-booksdvds/ to learn more about books and translations, manuals, DVDs and CDs.)
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