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ERIC Number: EJ1354717
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1941-1243
EISSN: EISSN-1941-1251
Effects of Sensory Diets: A Single Subject Study
Pingale, Vidya; Fletcher, Tina S.; Candler, Catherine; Pickens, Noralyn; Dunlap, Karen
Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, v15 n2 p165-180 2022
To compare the effect of sensory diets on children's sensory processing, psychosocial skills, and classroom engagement to a control intervention of non-therapeutic fine-motor or visual activities. A single-subject ABCA experimental design was used with five children attending prekindergarten through fourth-grade special education in an urban public school. Investigators measured target behaviors individualized for each participant in sensory processing skills, psychosocial skills, and classroom engagement. Data were analyzed visually and statistically. Sensory diets may have changed participants' sensory processing, psychosocial skills, and classroom engagement behaviors. However, target behaviors for each participant responded to sensory diets differently. Control intervention of non-therapeutic fine-motor visual activities did not change these behaviors. Positive and individualized changes in sensory processing, psychosocial, and classroom engagement behaviors were noted for each of the five children when sensory diets were administered in brief sessions throughout a school day. Changes did not occur in response to control intervention sessions indicating the sensory aspects of the intervention may have had influence. Future study is needed to demonstrate a causal relationship between sensory diets and classroom behaviors.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Behavior Assessment System for Children
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A