Sensory Profile 2

The Sensory Profile 2 family of assessments provides you with standardised tools to help evaluate a child's sensory processing patterns in the context of everyday life. These significantly revised questionnaires can help you determine how sensory processing may be contributing to or interfering with the child's participation in activities. The forms are completed by caregivers and teachers, who are in the strongest position to observe the child's response to sensory interactions that occur throughout the day.

The Sensory Profile 2 helps you:

• Identify and document the effect of sensory processing on 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
• Develop effective treatment plans, interventions, and everyday remediation strategies

Content & Administration

Using age-appropriate questionnaires, caregivers and teachers report on the child's response to sensory events throughout the day.

• Infant Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for babies from Birth–6 months.
• Toddler Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for toddlers aged 7–35 months.
• Child Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for children aged 3–14 years.
• Short Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for children aged 3–14 years. Items on this questionnaire, which are drawn from the Child Sensory Profile, are highly discriminating and provide quick information for screening and research programs.
• School Companion Sensory Profile: Teachers complete this form for their students aged 3–14 years.

Features & Benefits

• Offers updated content
• Presents information on the Infant, Toddler, Child, and School Companion forms in one manual—no need to purchase separate kits
• Reports percentiles for an additional level of analysis
• Gives you a choice of online or paper record forms to fit with your workflow
• Provides web-based scoring and reporting with Q-global for greater portability and ease-of-use
• Includes enhanced reporting options to give you the confidence to take the next steps
• Captures the child's responses to sensory experiences throughout the day, which helps shed light on factors that may be influencing the child's behaviour
• Presents a comprehensive view of a child's responses across settings, which helps facilitate discussion between families and professionals about strategies that support the child's participation in all contexts
• Offers you an evidence-based tool that is built on extensive evidence from the first editions of the Sensory Profile, including international research demonstrating the usefulness of data

Get the Sensory Profile training!

Are you new to using Sensory Profile? Perhaps you’ve been using it for a while and need some guidance on getting the most out of it. Either way, this new training is for you! We've taken the most frequently asked questions about interpreting the Sensory Profile and created a training module that teaches you a system and structure for understanding the test scores and using them to inform your clinical reasoning.

It includes an overview of Dunn's sensory processing framework, on which test scores are based, and explains how clinicians can translate theory to practice by interpreting test data in light of participation strengths and challenges. The importance of addressing sensory processing differences within the context of occupational performance will be highlighted in case studies.

At the end of the training, you will be able to:

• Analyse the meaning of different score patterns within the context of everyday life
• Interpret Sensory Profile test data to identify the impact of sensory processing patterns on participation – in terms of both strengths and challenges
• Use the Sensory Profile data to drive evidence-based intervention planning

The following resources are available for Sensory Profile 2.

Overview Materials

• Bibliography for the Sensory Profile(s)
• Sensory Profile 2 Technical Summary
• Supporting Sensory Processing Infographic
• Sensory Profile 2 Case Study

Sample Reports

• Child Full Assessment and Planning Report
• Child Score Summary Report
• Child Multi-rater Report
• School Full Assessment and Planning Report

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.

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