Lorna Jean King OTR, FAOTA, pioneer of sensory integration therapy, well known lecturer in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and long time Arizona resident, passed away November 4, 2006 in Phoenix, AZ.

King began her Arizona OT career in 1950 as the Director of Occupational Therapy at the Square and Compass Crippled Children’s Clinic in Tucson. From 1964 to l966 she was employed as a staff therapist at the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix and later became Director of Rehabilitative Therapies for Arizona State Hospital serving until l974. King became Founder and Director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental Studies from 1995-1998 and continued on as consultant.