Sensory Profile 2
The Sensory Profile™ 2 family of assessments provides standardized tools to help evaluate a child's sensory processing patterns in the context of home, school, and community-based activities. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.- Date de publication:
- 2014
- Groupe d’âge:
- Birth–14:11
- Notation/Interprétation:
-
Q-global (web-based) or manual scoring
- Niveau de qualification:
- B
- Temps de passation:
- 5–20 minutes
- Passation:
- Paper-and-pencil or online administration
- Autres langues:
- French
- Télépratique:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
The Sensory Profile 2 quickly assesses and organizes examinee information, generates scores, and produces accurate, comprehensive reports. These significantly revised questionnaires provide caregivers and teachers with deeper insight to help customize the next steps of intervention.
Benefits
- Make theory-based decisions leveraging principles of neuroscience, sensory processing, strengths-based approaches, and ecological models embedded in the items and scoring structure.
- Identify and document how sensory processing may be contributing to or interfering with a child's participation at home, school, and the community.
- Contribute valuable information to a comprehensive assessment of the child's sensory strengths and challenges in context.
- Develop effective treatment plans, interventions, and everyday remediation strategies.
Features
Using paper-and-pencil or online administration, caregivers and teachers report on the child's response to sensory events throughout the day.
- Combined questionnaire and score forms: Infant, Toddler, Child, Short, and School Companion forms in one manual.
- Spanish versions of the Caregiver Forms.
- Expanded age range: Child, Short, and School Companion forms age increased to 14:11 to give more flexibility in assessing preteens and younger teens.
- Shorter questionnaires: Infant, Child, School Companion, and Short form questionnaires are briefer. The toddler questionnaire is increased by just a few items, reflecting new understanding of sensory processing at this age.
- Updated content and greater item consistency between forms.
- Cut scores with optional percentiles for an additional level of analysis.
- A wide range of studies between children with and without disabilities, to ensure discrimination with vulnerable populations.
Sample Reports
Each form includes some combination of Sensory System, Behavioral, Sensory Pattern, and School Factor scores. The Assessment and Planning Report links findings form the questionnaires to participation at home, in school, and in the community. The Multi-rater report facilitates sensory processing assessment in context.
The following resources are available for Sensory Profile 2.
Overview Materials
Author Case Study Series
This 3-part webinar series by Sensory Profile 2 by author Dr. Winnie Dunn uses case study examples to support health and education professionals to incorporate sensory processing knowledge into everyday practice. This series has been provided with the support of Occupational Therapy Australia and is reproduced here with the permission of Occupational Therapy Australia.
Case Study 1
Using the Toddler Sensory Profile 2 to support a 2 1/2 year old whose family are requesting help with hygiene and meal-times.
Case Study 2
Using the Child Sensory Profile 2 to support a 5 year old who lives in a rural location and needs to be able to participate in car journeys with her family.
Case Study 3
Using the School-Companion Sensory Profile 2 to support a child in third grade who is becoming more socially isolated.
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