The “Sync” series: Learn how sensory challenges affect children, and how fun and functional sensory-motor activities can improve life at home and school
Carol Stock Kranowitz
While teaching music and movement to preschoolers, Carol Stock Kranowitz learned about sensory processing disorder/differences. To help parents and teachers understand SPD, she wrote The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Differences (3rd edition, 2022) and other books in the "Sync" series. Recent books include The Out-of-Sync Family; Good Times with Out-of-Sync Grandkids; and Out-of-Sync Success Stories. With Joye Newman, she has developed the “In-Sync Child” approach to weave movement experiences into every child's day. Her books have sold almost two million copies and have been translated into 21 languages.
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Book Reviews
In “Autism Digest” magazine, read occupational therapist Paula Simpson’s wonderful book review of the latest book in the “Out-of-Sync” series. Click here: AD.Nov25-Jan26.BookReview
Patricia S. Lemer, M.Ed., LPC, says, “I am thrilled to shout accolades to Carol’s newest offering …. Grandparents like me remember with pleasure many of the activities Carol reintroduces: playing beauty parlor, tossing beanbags and writing thank-you notes.” Click to read more.
Patricia S. Lemer, M.Ed., LPC, says, “Carol has updated her guidebook to help a new generation of caregivers and educators discover and understand what could be a missing piece of their children’s complicated puzzle…. Even if you already have [an earlier version], you need this one, too.” Click to read the review (on the website of Epidemic Answers at www.epidemicanswers.org).
Talks
(December 2024) In one of Therapro’s free seminars, Joye Newman and Carol explain their simple In-Sync Child formula. With this formula, parents, teachers and therapists — along with their kids — can instantly design fun and functional activities to develop and enhance sensory-motor, perceptual-motor, and visual-motor development.
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(May 2023) Joye Newman and Carol present a webinar as one of Therapro’s free seminars. Based on their “In-Sync Child” publications, the hour includes an overview of sensory-, perceptual-, and visual-motor development, with an offering of several In-Sync activities that develop and enhance physical and emotional health and academic success.
(May 2022) Another conversation with Veronica Hunter of ADHD-What Now? concerns how help for sensory processing disorder can be hard to come by. Many doctors don’t know all the ins and outs, but parents usually need them to make a diagnosis.
Articles
November 2025 – January 2026 issue of “Autism Digest.” Hannah Mitchell was a fearful little girl with severe SPD and selective mutism. She has grown into a beautiful young woman who is a successful off-Broadway and Broadway stage manager with amazing organizational and communicative skills. What an inspiration! Read her story here.
August-October 2025 issue of “Autism Digest.”
The intense sensory experiences of riding and wrangling horses helps teenager Caitlin manage her SPD. Her goal is to become an occupational therapist and work with young children because she understands sensory processing differences and knows what helps.
May-July 2025 issue of “Autism Digest.”
Rebecca Spring grew up feeling uncomfortably hot in Washington, DC. Now she is doing something about her interoceptive problem with temperature — she has become a climate activist! Read her story here.
The Out-of-Sync Child has become the parents’ bible to [Sensory Processing Differences].
The New York Times
The Out-of-Sync Child does a masterful job of describing the different ways children react to sensations and integrate their responses to their world. The book provides detailed, practical information that will help parents understand how the nervous system works.
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
Child psychiatrist and author (with Serena Wieder) of The Child with Special Needs
The Out-of-Sync Child is great! It is a real contribution to the parents of the many children who are so hard to understand. It will let parents off the hook of blaming themselves… and will help them get on to the job of addressing the child’s underlying difficulties.
T. Berry Brazelton, MD
Founder, Brazelton Foundation, Children’s Hospital, Boston
Warm and wise, [The Out-of-Sync Child] will bring both hope and practical help to parents who wonder why their kid doesn’t ‘fit in.’
Jane M. Healy
Learning specialist and author of Your Child’s Growing Mind
