By Catana Brown, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, Winnie Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Age range: 11 years and older
Completion time: Untimed
Qualification Level: B
Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile is useful in a variety of settings and offers a research-based, family-centered approach to sensory processing, from birth to geriatric.
Benefits
- Understand the complexities of a client’s sensory processing.
- Gather critical sensory information related to home, school, and work, and evaluate possible contributions of sensory processing to the client's daily performance patterns.
- Design strategies for managing daily life.
- Understand how a parent’s sensory ability can impact a child with sensory difficulties.
- Identify and develop a client’s awareness and strategies to optimise the desired sensory environment.
Features
The Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile includes 60 items (15 items for each quadrant). These quadrants cover the sensory processing categories of Taste/Smell, Movement, Visual, Touch, Activity Level, and Auditory.
- Generates an individualised profile of sensory processing across the four quadrants.
- Quadrant scores represent patterns of sensory processing as described in Dunn's (1997a) Model of Sensory Processing.
- Reproducible charts provide an intervention matrix across the four quadrants and six sensory processing categories.
- A theory-based instrument to measure sensory processing.
- Non-intrusive, easy to administer and score.
Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile Manual
