Winnie Dunn

     Dr. Dunn is Professor and Chair of Occupational Therapy Education, School of Allied Health, University of Kansas.  She has provided services in public schools for the last three decades using many innovative strategies.  She has also conducted federal grants, which investigate service provision needs in educational settings.  She has provided many continuing education experiences to help services providers design effective services.  Dr. Dunn has been particularly active in working on integrated service provision and full inclusion programs.  She has written extensively about models of service provision and the use of consultation as a viable option.  Her teaching has been honored with a Kemper Teaching Fellowship.   
     Dr. Dunn is Faculty Emeritus of Sensory Integration International and taught many of the early courses in sensory integration theory, test administration and interpretation.  She is the author of the Sensory Profile, Infant/ Toddler Sensory Profile, and coauthor of the Adolescent/ Adult Sensory Profile, caregiver and self reporting measures of patterns of response to sensory events in everyday life. She has just completed the Sensory Profile School Companion, a measure of children's responses in the classroom for teachers to complete on their students.  Dr. Dunn was honored as the Eleanor Clark Slagle Lecturer, the highest academic honor for OT's in the USA in 2001.  Her lecture was entitled: Sensory Processing in Everyday Life: Theoretical, Conceptual and Pragmatic Considerations, and emanates from her research on sensory processing (see Dunn, 2001). 
     She is also a member of the Academy of Research of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, and has received the A. Jean Ayres Research Award and the Chancellor's award for Research.  She has published more than 100 professional journals and book chapters, and has authored one of the definitive texts on serving children and families in the community.