Photo: Left- Leslie Aisner Novak, Founder of Howda HUG Right-Carol Kranowitz, Founder of The Out of Sync Child When I was 21 years old (18 years ago) I had the pleasure of meeting Carol Kranowitz, Music Teacher at St. Columba’s Pre-School in Bethesda, MD. Each morning at 9a.m. I drove Leigh Lucas, my five year old charge, to school there and then at 12 noon I picked her up. There was always this smiling happy teacher named Carol that I got to say hello to. The next year I became the nanny of a woman named Ellisa who had taught with Carol. Ellisa though was now the Director of Janney Extended Daycare where she hired me to be a teacher in the before school program. Fast forward 14 years later, I was a mother of five children living in Medfield, MA. My son was having several hypersensitivity issues. I e-mailed Ellisa and asked if she had any ideas of how to help him. She recommended to me Carol’s book The Out of Sync Child about Sensory Processing Disorder. She told me how St. Columba’s Pre-School had been part of some pioneering research in the area of Sensory Processing Disorder, also known as Sensory Integration Disorder. Thus began a new adventure in my life of studying a different aspect of learning disabled children: sensory issues, processing and the vestibular system. A whole new world opened up to me and my children as we learned about adapting a child’s needs to their environment in processing what they hear, see and do based on techniques developed by Occupational Therapists for those with Sensory issues. For years I had had varied experiences caring for children, those with autism, down syndrome, ADHD, dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Now I learned that many of these children’s problems stemmed from Sensory Processing Disorders such as over sensitivity or under sensitivity to touch, sight or sound. With this new information, I could help my children and my students on a whole new level of learning and adjusting to their environment. On October 2, 2008 I attended my first Seminar by Carol Kranowitz in Randolph, MA called Sensory Strategies to Improve Learning and Behavior. It was a happy reunion as Carol and I reminisced about pre-school at St. Columba, Ellisa and the children to whom I was a nanny. Also lecturing at the seminar was Rex Birkmire, MD who discussed the neurological aspects of Sensory Processing Disorder. Links: SPD Sensory Processing Disorder SIFocus Magazine Sensory Sensations Sensory Resources, LLC The Out of Sync Child Kaboom OTA Watertown ATeachAbout The Alert Program Stickids Howda Designz http://www.out-of-sync-child.com/http://www.out-of-sync-child.com/http://www.spdfoundation.net/http://www.sifocus.com/http://www.shopsensorysensations.com/http://www.sensoryresources.com/http://www.out-of-sync-child.com/http://projects.kaboom.org/Home/tabid/17569/Default.aspxhttp://www.otawatertown.com/http://www.ateachabout.com/http://www.alertprogram.com/http://www.stickids.com/http://www.howda.com/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12

Carol Kranowitz, Sensory Processing Disorder                                 Randolph, MA

Thursday, October 2, 2008

 
 

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