Effect of Sensory Processing Style Interventions on Increasing Parental Self-efficacy and Child-parent Relationship in Children with Autism

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 intervention has an effect on increasing parental self-efficacy and child-parent relationship in children with autism.
The intervention study included 8 children and their mothers. Children have a primary diagnosis of autism based on DSM-V¡ didn’t have any comorbid neurologic disorder and were 3-6 years age (mean is 3 years to 6 years and 11 months). First¡ mothers filled the sensory profile. After that based on children’s impaired senses¡ they received Dunn’s model interventions. For assessment¡ self-efficacy and child-parent relationship was assessed in participants twice in pretreatments¡ intervention¡ post-treatment and after one and three months follow up use of sensory processing styles intervention. For analyze of data¡ we use percent improvement and standard mean for follow up.
Findings: Percent improvement show increased in rate of self-efficacy (-19.45%) and increased in rate of child-parent relationship (-7.22%)¡ but none of them is significant.
It was hypothesized that outcomes of this study would not support the relationship between sensory processing intervention and increase of parental self-efficacy and child-parent relationship in children with autism. It means that improvement of sensory processing in autistic children don’t lead to increase of parental self-efficacy and child-parent relationship.