ABSTRACT

The study was intended to compare typically developing children with autism or PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disability) children in sensory processing skills. To accomplish this goal, was translate and change of Short Sensory Profile(Dunn, 1999). The first step was perform factor analysis, items-total raw score relations and reliability of the scales. Then, the sensory processing skills of typicallydeveloping children and autism or PDD children was compared. Also, each two age groups of typically developing children and autism or PDD children were compared.Finally, gender of each typically developing children and autism or PDD children were compared. The subjects of the research were 186 typically developing children and 95 autism or PDD children aged 3 to 10 years.The result of the study have shown as follows:1. There were significant differences between groups in total score and sub factor score. This results yielded significant differences between groups suggest that autism or PDD children had sensory processing difficulties.2. There were no significant differences between two age groups differences of autism or PDD children but there were significant differences between two age groups of typically developing children on fore sub-factor score and total score.3. There were no significant differences between each gender groups of typically developing children and autism or PDD children.In conclusion, this research proves the fact that differences between typical children and autistic PDD children in sensory processing skills. The scales utilized this study can be used to screening the autism or PDD children with sensory processing difficulties. It is expected that development of screening test tool for various disabilities children with sensory processing difficulties.