The authors
Megan Faure
Megan Faure (Bsc OT, OTR) has worked in paediatrics for thirteen years both in the USA and South Africa. She is an active member of the South African Institute for Sensory Integration (SAISI) and is the secretary of the Western Cape Association for Infant Mental Health. Having specialised in both sensory integration and neurodevelopmental therapy she has worked with children with learning difficulties and motor problems and in recent years moved onto working specifically with babies and toddlers with sensory integration difficulties. These infants display extreme fussiness, poor sleep habits and, often, feeding problems. She is a lecturer for SAISI on treatment and theory specialization courses, lectures to professionals on various topics related to infant development and the treatment of infants and regularly gives parent talks on issues concerning development and child rearing. Megan is the founder and chairperson of Infant Sensory Integration Training programme. She also writes articles for magazines and has been published in the SAISI periodical. Megan is married with a son (born 1998) and two daughters (born 2000 and 2005), whose upbringing provides her with great joy - plus renewed awareness of the benefits of understanding a baby’s signals, structuring a flexible routine and providing an optimal sensory environment for their development.
Ann Richardson
Qualified nurse and midwife Ann Richardson, co-author of Baby sense, and author of Toddler sense, both bestsellers, has worked in the midwifery and paediatric fields for 27 years. Her third book, Sleep sense, co-authored with Megan Faure has just been published. Ann has been in private practice for the past 16 years, and introduced the first private well-baby clinics, now a well-known phenomenon at Doctors’ rooms and pharmacies across the country. Passionate about her work and dedicated to ensuring that parents have the necessary knowledge to enjoy and rejoice in their children, she regularly lectures to both professionals and parents on various baby and childcare issues, in particular the effects of the sensory system on infant behaviour, and the management of sleeping disorders. Her specialisation is the treatment of “difficult babies and toddlers”, in particular those with feeding and sleeping disorders. She is a regular contributor to nursing journals, internet sites, childcare publications, TV shows and magazines. Ann is married to Ken, and has 2 daughters, Ellen and Maeve, and lives and practices in Johannesburg.
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