The Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile was completed by April’s caregiver to learn more about her sensory preferences in comparison to same age peers. Because of her cognitive functional level, a long formal assessment would be unlikely to give realistic information. In addition, the norms are still within her age range to give a true depiction of her sensory functional level. It is important to learn her sensory preferences in order to set up the environment and activities in a way that helps her remain calm and feel organized. Knowing her sensory needs will assist with the IEP and transition planning to know what sensory experiences to avoid. It will also provide valuable information on which ones to implement to create success in school and …show more content…
After inquiring about how to administer the assessment to someone with a severe impairment, the team found that adapting the administration procedures to allow a caregiver to complete the profile was appropriate. As a result, the questionnaire was completed by her caregiver. Due to this adaptation, clinical judgment must be used to best interpret the results and determine her sensory processing patterns. Due to April’s cognitive impairment and nonverbal communication, it is difficult for her to express her needs and frustrations, which often results in maladaptive behaviors and emotional outbursts. The sensory profile results can also be applied when addressing the cause of maladaptive behaviors through ABC data. Findings: April’s caregiver completed the 60-item questionnaire and rated each item on a five point Likert scale. Items on the questionnaire address sensory processing areas including taste/smell, movement, visual, touch, activity level, and auditory. From these ratings, four quadrant scores were given. These quadrants are poor sensory registration, sensory seeking, sensory sensitivity, and sensory avoidance. April’s results for each quadrant are shown in the table: Quadrant Raw Score Cut Score Range Cut Score
...c Observation Schedule, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale, and McArthur Communication Development Inventory to measure the communication and aversive behavior frequency of the participants. After the procedures were complete, results demonstrated that advances were made in both of the dependent measures that utilized ABA with NET and DTT combined (Matson & Konst, 2013, p. 476). Comparable results were also found by Zachor and Ben-Itzchak (2010) who conducted a similar study with more dependent measures including communication, language, comprehension, daily living skills, motor skills, visual perception, and social behaviors (as cited in Matson & Konst, 2013). Thus, this research demonstrates that comprehensive ABA programs can be an ideal method of treatment not only for school-aged children and adults with ASD, but for EI individuals as well (Matson & Konst, 2013).
The sensory room project for the RISE school will be housed in a designated sensory room at the Early Learning Center. This room will benefit all students attending programs within the ELC, but will be of exceptional benefit to the students with special needs in the program. The project will be executed by the center director, who will work with a company specializing in sensory room design to meet the timeline and cost guidelines. Teachers will be instructed on specific use of items by the contracted occupational therapist and/or director.
An alternate form of therapy that could benefit Mrs. Kay is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The social worker would begin with educational information on the CBT triangle, which includes thoughts, emotions, behaviors and body feelings. Since Mrs. Kay is cognitively aware she will be able to answer the assessment questions. The social workers discovered that Mrs. Kay’s main area of focus was on her belief that she could not report her pain or ask for assistance while living in an assisted living facility (Corcoran, 2014).
...if the caregiver needs a break. Also, talking to the family about friends and family that they have reached out too, or organizations that they are currently using to make everyday tasks easier. In general, the evaluation is going to be based off observation, and the family and patients verbal report of their well being.
Furthermore, assessment of the caregiver’s perception of the health and functional status of the patient, the preparedness of the caregiver for the job of caregiving is assessed.
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Being a psychology student, one learns many amazing things that can happen to people. One of them includes synesthesia. Synesthesia is a natural occurrence where a person experiences multiple senses at one time. For example, somebody with synesthesia may see a color when somebody is talking to them. Another example is when they touch something, they also experience smell. This happens without the person trying at all. One of the most popular types of synesthesia is Grapheme. This means that people see letters and numbers in colors automatically without any effort. Most people with synesthesia experience it their whole life, so what implications does it have on synesthetes childhood, especially when being and school with other children who are considered typical students? We will look at several studies that have observed children with synesthesia and their experiences in the education system.
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For the location of my naturalistic observational study I chose a public park with a splash pad which I frequently visit with my daughter. Since this site is quite popular with locals at any given time of the day there are at least over a dozen people present. As the park is designed for the entertainment of children the age group of the people varies. There are young children accompanied by their parents and grandparents as well as teenagers in groups. Therefore the above discussed park proved to be the greatest preference for me to observe the behavior of people in a natural setting.
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Home is experienced in a multitude of ways using our senses. Impressions of our past and present homes materialize from a familiar smell, sight, feeling, taste or sound. We all live in a multi-sensory environment, where we can use one or more of our senses on a daily basis to absorb our surroundings. However, it is easily arguable that although each sense can conjure up a memory, or imprint a grasp of where we live or lived, certain senses are stronger with the recollection or the feelings we have of our home. If we live in the same home as other people, some of us will associate a certain smell to the home, while others will not; or a sound, etc., that I would not associate with that home. I will be pursuing the reasons why we absorb our environments
One of the more recent studies done on extra sensory perception was conducted by Daryl B...
How does smell affect taste? Flavor is based on a combination of factors. These factors include taste, smell, texture, and temperature. The following experiment’s main focus is the flavor of food, based on the combination of smell and taste. Have you ever pinched your nose while eating and noticed that you can’t taste your food?
The five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are all sensations throughout the human body. Sensation is the involvement of sensory receptors as well as the central nervous system in order to allow us to experience outside stimuli. The system that allows us to experience sensation is the sensory system.