Therapeutic Advisory Board

Carol Stock Kranowitz

Carol Stock Kranowitz is the author of The Out-of-Sync Child, the 1998 bestseller that demystifies Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). Its sequel, The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, was published in 2003. She also wrote 101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces and co-authored a preschool screening to identify young children with SPD.

As a music, movement and drama teacher for 25 years, Carol developed a purposeful curriculum that integrates sensory-motor activities into the preschool day. As a school consultant, she helps teachers sharpen their abilities to understand students’ atypical behavior and make accommodations to strengthen all children’s healthy development.

Carol travels widely, addressing parents, teachers, and professionals about how sensory processing disorders in children play out at home and school – and how appropriate sensory-motor activities may help them become more regulated and competent in their occupation of childhood.

Carol received a B.A. in English from Barnard College and an M.A. in Education & Human Development from The George Washington University. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland. She has two married sons and three grandchildren.

Books and Other Printed Materials
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (Perigee, 2003)

The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (Perigee, 1998)

101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces (St. Martin’s, 1995)

The Balzer-Martin Preschool Screening Program Manual, with Lynn Balzer-Martin, PhD, OTR (St. Columba’s, 1992)

Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration, with Stacey Szklut, et al. (Sensory Resources, 2002)

Audiotape
Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration, with Stacey Szklut, MS, OTR/L
(Belle Curve/Sensory Resources, 1999)

Videos
The Out-of-Sync Child (Sensory Resources, 2001)

Getting Kids in Sync: Sensory-Motor Activities to Help Children Develop Body Awareness and Integrate Their Senses (Sensory Resources, 2002)
 

Kathleen E. Morris, MS, CCC/SLP
Born: Dallas, Texas
Married, two children

Kathleen Morris has been a pediatric therapist for 27 years beginning in the public schools and in private practice for the past 22 years. She has founded two pediatric clinics specializing in Sensory Integration deficits, a non-profit organization for the purpose education in the area of sensory processing and publishes an international magazine. She speaks to parents and professionals from Dallas to Moscow.

Education:
1972 B.S. - Speech Pathology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
1978 M.S. - Communication Disorders/Speech Pathology, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas

Certification:
Certificate of Clinical Competency, American Speech-Language Hearing Association

Current Positions:
Executive Director, Lakewood Pediatric Therapy, Inc, Dallas, Texas
Executive Director, Sensory Integration Center of Coppell, Coppell, Texas
President, Pediatric Network Foundation, 501(c)(3) non-profit
Founder/Publisher/ Managing Editor, S.I. Focus Magazine

Volunteer:
Buckner Orphan Care International, Russia and Romania

Professional Organizations:
Member, American Speech-Language Hearing Association
Associate Member, American Occupational Therapy Association
Member, Texas Speech and Hearing Association

Boards:
Clinical Advisory Council for KID Foundation
President, Pediatric Network Foundation

Website:
www.sensoryintegration.com
 

Theresha A. Szypulski, MA, CCC-SLP

Theresha A. Szypulski, M.A., CCC-SLP has enjoyed an extensive career in the oral communication field throughout the past 34 years. She is the developer of Interactive Oral Sensory-Motor Therapy and presents internationally on The Application of IOSM Therapy in Autism Spectrum Disorders. She also presents on Sensory Strategies for Dental Management of Clients with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Theresha is a co-author of Great Therapy Ideas: Oral Sensory Motor Tool-Toys and Techniques.

Mrs. Szypulski is the owner and founder of Accessing Better Communication, Inc., a private practice of speech-language pathology in Charleston, SC. Her practice has a specialty focus on treatment of autism, oral motor disorders, and central auditory processing disorders. She serves as the speech-language pathologist for the Coastal Autism Resource Evaluation Clinic at the Medical University of SC and for the South Carolina DDSN- Autism Division- Coastal Autism Resource Evaluation Center in Charleston. Recently, she has been named Coordinator of Testing for LinguiSystems, Inc. Her career has included teaching at the University of South Dakota, the College of Charleston, the Medical University of South Carolina and serving as Department Head of Speech, Humanities and History at Trident Technical College in Charleston. In addition to clinical work, she has practiced in public schools, hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies.

Theresha earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of South Dakota. She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language Association, the ASHA-ACE Award and a South Carolina State License in Speech-Language Pathology. Trish is married (her husband is a speech-language pathologist/audiologist) and has two grown children.