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.

Hundreds of sponsors have brought Carol to their communities for presentations, both in the United States and abroad — including Australia, Canada, England, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, and Switzerland. Click EVENTS to learn about her presentations.

Carol is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University, which gave her its Distinguished Alumna Award in 2017. She has an M.A. in Education and Human Development from The George Washington University. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and has two wonderful sons and daughters-in-law and five sensational grandchildren. For fun, she plays the cello and, because of a high movement quota, gets at least an hour of exercise every day.

To help families, teachers, and professionals understand SPD in children and adolescents, she has written several books, manuals, and other publications, some of which are listed below. Click HERE to learn more about books and translations.  (Brief descriptions are below.)

The Out-of-Sync Child (3rd edition): Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Differences (TarcherPerigee, 2022). This groundbreaking book explains SPD and presents a drug-free approach that offers help and hope for parents. A Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner in 2022, the book has sold more than 1,000,000 copies since publication in 1998 and has been translated into 15 languages.

The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder  (Perigee, revised 2006) is chock full of fun and functional activities to improve children’s sensory systems (touch, movement and balance, body position, vision, hearing, smelling and tasting) and their sensory-related skills (oral-motor skills, motor planning, fine-motor skills, bilateral coordination and crossing the midline).  These activities are suitable for all children.

The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up: Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years (Tarcher/Perigee 2016) offers essential information for tweens, teens, and young men and women in their 20s who have SPD — and for their parents and friends, too. Insightful and poignant contributions from more than 50 people who have grown up with SPD help readers navigate the adolescent years.

Growing an In-Sync Child: Simple, Fun Activities to Help Every Child Develop, Learn, and Grow (Perigee, 2010), co-authored with Joye Newman, is a fresh approach to understanding the profound impact of motor development on children of all ages and stages. The book includes 60 beginner, intermediate, and advanced activities to help all children — with and without disabilities — to develop and enhance their sensory-motor, perceptual-motor, and visual-motor skills.  The book received a Teachers' Choice Award for the Classroom, 2013.

The In-Sync Activity Cards: 50 Simple Activities to Help Children Develop, Learn, and Grow! (Sensory World, 2015), co-authored with Joye Newman, is a sequel to Growing an In-Sync Child. A Mom's Choice 2013 Gold Award winner, the cards are also available in book format and in digital format.

The Out-of-Sync Family: A Story about Sensory Differences (Sensory World, revised 2023) is an illustrated book for 8-12 year-olds. This chapter book is a Therapist Recommendation Toy Winner (2023 Autism Live Toy & Gift Guide) and Mom's Choice 2023 Gold Award winner.

Good Times with Out-of-Sync Grandkids: Activities for Grown-ups and Children with Sensory Processing Differences (Sensory World, 2025) is an illustrated book for preschoolers and up. The book is a  Mom's Choice 2025 Gold Award winner.

A Year of Mini-Moves for the In-Sync Child (Sensory World, 2022), with Joye Newman, is a 52-week calendar with "quicky" movement activities for young children.  The book received a Mom's Choice Gold Award and a Creative Child Magazine 2021 Product of the Year Award.  Available in a hardcopy and in digital format.

Preschool Sensory Scan for Educators, or “Preschool SENSE” (Sensory Resources, 2005) is a screening tool to help occupational therapists and early childhood teachers collaborate and quickly identify children who may have SPD and may benefit from occupational therapy using sensory integration techniques.

101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces (St. Martin’s, 1995) is an activity book for children of all abilities.