Sensory Profile 2 - Infant

Title of Assessment 

• Sensory Profile 2- Infant (SP2)

Author(s) 

•  Winnie Dunn, Ph.D, OTR, FAOTA

Year of Publication/Publisher 

•  2014

• PsychCorp

Identify Type of Assessment 

•  observation-based

• norm-referenced

Cost (identify source) & How to Access Assessment (include link if possible) 

•  Sensory Profile 2 | Sensory Profile for Children | Pearson Assessments US 

• Complete printed SP2 kit is $356.50

Population (who it is appropriate for [age, diagnosis, etc.])  

• Birth to 6 months old

• ADHD

• Neurological disorders

• IDD

• Autism 

Appropriate Settings (potential practice settings appropriate to administer assessment in) 

•  school-based

• Early intervention (EI)

• Outpatient/Inpatient OT

• Home Health 

Purpose of Assessment & Function(s)/Area(s) Assessed  

•  The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate a child's sensory patterns in the context of their natural everyday life. This assessment can determine how a child's sensory processing may be contributing to or interfering with their daily life when it comes to participating in daily tasks. 

Administration (time to administer, group/individual, if there are subtests, can they be completed individually, are there specific instructions to ensure standardization, etc.) 

•  5-10 minutes to fill out

• 15 minutes to score 

• 4 quadrants

  • 1= low registration

  • 2= sensation-seeking

  • 3= sensory sensitivity

  • 4= sensation avoiding

• includes 25 questions for the parent or caregiver to fill out on behalf of the child

User Qualifications  

• no qualifications or training required

• completed by the caregiver 

Materials Required  

• user manual

• writing utensil

• questionnaire

Scoring Procedure (how is assessment scored and what does score indicate)  

•  The sensory system scores general, auditory, visual, touch, movement, body position, and oral. The behavioral scores are behavioral conduct, social-emotional, and attentional. The sensory pattern scores seeking/seeker, avoiding/avoider, sensitivity/sensory, and registration/bystander. 

• Using a five-point scale, each response is ranked 0-5

  • • 5= almost always

    • 4= frequently

    • 3= half the time

    • 2= occasionally

    • 1= almost never

    • 0= does not apply

• Each question will then get a total raw score based on the scores from each item. The number score correlates to the ranking column the parent lists. Based on these raw scores and the manual, the individual can determine what sensory processing areas their child is more sensitive to. 

Psychometrics/Standardization (norms, reliability/validity studies) 

• inter-rater/intra-rater reliability is adequate at .48

• internal consistency is excellent ranging from 0.89 to 0.95

• test-retest reliability is acceptable at 0.80 to 0.90

• construct validity is adequate to excellent ranging from p<0.05-0.01

Strengths & Weaknesses of Assessment  

•    strengths

  • quick to administer

  • gives the caregiver the ability to administer it in their own time and understand what their child may be struggling with processing

•  weaknesses

  • Caregiver's children may react the same way to certain senses, but they may see it a different way and score it differently. So differing perspectives can affect the outcome. 

References 

• Dunn, W. (2014). Sensory Profile 2. Pearson.

• Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile Technical Report. (n.d.-c). https://www.pearsonassessments.com/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/sensory-profile/itsp-technical-report.pdf

• Sensory profile-Infant. Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. (n.d.-c). https://www.sralab.org/rehabilitation-measures/sensory-profile