The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities.

Self-injurious Behaviour 1 Running head: SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOUR The Relationship between Stereotyped Movements and Self-Injurious Behaviour in Children with Developmental or Sensory Disabilities

Relationships between stereotyped movements and sensory processing disorders in children with and without developmental or sensory disorders.

OBJECTIVE Stereotyped movements (SM) are a defining characteristic of autism but are also present in children with a range of sensory and developmental disorders. We examined whether the severity of sensory processing disorders (SPD) was associated with the severity of SM and whether SPD accounted for between-group differences in SM. METHOD The Short Sensory Profile and the Stereotyped and Se...

Stereotyped behaviors predicting self-injurious behavior in individuals with intellectual disabilities.

We examined the relation between stereotyped behavior and self-injurious behavior (SIB) for 1871 individuals with intellectual disabilities who had a score of >0 on the Behavior Problem Inventory (BPI-01; Rojahn et al., 2001). We report three main findings: First, structural equation modeling techniques (SEM) revealed that the BPI-01stereotyped behavior subscale scores predicted BPI-01 SIB subs...

Functions of maladaptive behavior in intellectual and developmental disabilities: behavior categories and topographies.

Research has shown that different maladaptive behavior categories may be maintained by different contingencies. We examined whether behavior categories or behavior topographies determine functional properties. The Questions about Behavioral Function with its five subscales (Attention, Escape, Nonsocial, Physical, and Tangible) was completed by direct care staff for one target behavior for each ...

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Background: Sensory processing is a part of our body’s function that is getting neural input, interpret and answer to them. In some clinical condition, like autism, sensory processing was impaired. Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder that has problem in communication, social interaction and stereotype behavior. This case study endeavored to determine whether or not sensory processing...