Living Sensationally — Understanding Your Senses
 
Winnie Dunn, Ph.D. OTR FAOTA is Professor and Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy Education at the University of Kansas. She is an internationally known expert for her studies about sensory processing in everyday life. She has published more than 100 research articles, book chapters and books, and has spoken around the world about her work. She is the author/coauthor of all of the Sensory Profile measures, which capture people's responses to sensory events in everyday life; these assessments have been translated into dozens of languages and are used for both professional practice and in research programs. She has received the top honors in her field, including the Award of Merit for outstanding overall contributions, the Eleanor Clark Slagle Lectureship for outstanding academic contributions, she is a member of the Academy of Research for the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and has received the A. Jean Ayres research award. Most recently she has written a book for the public about her research entitled Living Sensationally: Understanding Your Senses, which has been featured in Time magazine, Cosmopolitan magazine, Canadian Public Radio and the London Times newspaper among others.
 
Topics include:

• How our individual sensory patterns affect the way we react to everything that happens to us throughout the day
   
  
• Why understanding the complexities of sensory processing can heal our relationship conflicts at home and work
   
  
• How to work out your own and your loved one's sensory profiles
   
  
• Designing strategies for managing daily life with family members whose strategies differ from yours
   
  
• Why different environments will energize some adults and children people, and overwhelm others -- and what to do in each case