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Characterizing Social Functioning in School-Age Children with Sensory Processing Abnormalities
T St John1,2,3, A Estes4,5,6, K K Begay7
1Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. tstjohn@uw.edu.
Abstract:
Children with sensory abnormalities (SAs) have a variety of social problems resulting in poorer social functioning than children with typical development (TD). We describe the relationship between SAs and social functioning in school-age children with SAs, children with TD and a clinical comparison sample of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children with SAs demonstrated impaired social functioning on standardized measures. Children with SAs demonstrated worse social functioning than children with TD and equivalent social functioning to children with ASD. Increased SAs were associated with poorer social functioning across all groups. The results suggest that children with SAs experience clinically significant problems with social functioning and future research is needed to develop interventions to support social functioning in this population.
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