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Reseach Summaries
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Principle Investigator:
Date started:
Research Question:
Does a Therapeutic Listening program, in combination with a traditional OT program, facilitate changes in attention, behavior, motor coordination, and/or sensory responses?
Participants:
- 5 children - 3.6 to 7.6 years old
- Diagnoses included: Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Hypotonia, Functional Feeding Disorder
- Displays two or more of following: short attention span, impaired sensory processing, sensory defensiveness, vestibular/proprioceptive dysfunction, motor coordination deficits, oral-motor impairments, functional feeding problems, perceptual motor impairments
Design:
- Single subject A-B-C-A
- 2-3 selected target behaviors/skills for each subject
Instruments:
- Sensory Profile
- Sensory Profile addendum - qualitative descriptions of daily life routines
- Specific measures of target behaviors
Preliminary Results:
Summary of means:
- 3 had positive mean change for each target behavior in each intervention phase
- 1 had positive mean change for all but one target behavior in intervention phase
Two Standard Deviation Band Width:
- 2 target behaviors had statistically significant change in all phases
- 3 target behaviors had statistically significant change in 2 nd phase
- 3 behaviors maintained change in withdrawal phase
Quality of Behavior:
- Hand-flapping/bouncing changed to holding hands together at midline
- Hand shaking and verbal outbursts in messy play changed to quiet hand wiping & return to play
- Favorable trends : sleep interruptions decreased, improved visual motor skills related to printing, block design, decreased sensory defensiveness (quality and frequency), improved quality of self stimulatory behaviors, tying shoelaces independently.
- No Significant Changes : frequency of self-stimulatory behaviors, catching a ball cleanly, aversiveness to food tastes, drawing a cross, and recalling auditory cues.
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