Sensory Processing Disorder in Normally Developing Egyptian Children

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1 Department of Medical Studies-Faculty of postgraduate childhood studies-Ain Shams University

2 Phoniatric unit, Otolaryngology Department, Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo,Egypt

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Background: The aim of this study was to assess the sensory processing among typically developing children between 3-8 years old to follow any negative impact on their social and behavioral development.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to Develop and standardize Arabic QuickSIN test that measures the signal-to-noise ratio loss.
Patients and Methods: Sensory processing abilities were assessed for 190 typically developing children by using the Short Sensory Profile (SSP)caregiver questionnaire. A typical sensory performance was defined as an SSP total score of: 190-155 and the total scores of typical sensory performances for tactile sensitivity:35-30; taste/smell sensitivity:20-15; movement sensitivity: 15-13; under-responsive/seeks sensation:35-27; auditory filtering:30-23; low energy/weak:30-26; and visual/auditory sensitivity: 25-19. Below these scores shows atypical sensory performance.
Results: The typically developed children showed some degree of sensory processing disorderon Under-responsive/seek sensitivity as well as Taste and smell sensitivity. Some children in this study (50.5 %) showed a degree of sensory processing impairment in the SSP total score. An increase in the tactile sensitivity was significantly associated with higher prevalence of the movement sensitivity (r=0.745, p value= <0.001). As for the Pearson correlation between the low energy/weak and the visual/auditory sensitivity is about r=0.698, which indicates that there is a moderate positive relationship between the 2 variables.
Conclusion: These findings showed the types of sensory processing disorder in typically developing children and the difference between female and male children. Future studies are required on larger samples to clarify more the types of sensory impairment in typically developing children and to confirm these results.

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