The mediating role of sensory processing patterns in the relationship between parental parenting styles and Learning Disorder in children

Learning disorder is affected by many communication variables and focuses on sensory processing in children; therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the mediating role of sensory processing patterns in the relationship between parental parenting styles and Learning Disorder in children. The method of research was correlation based on modeling, a type of path analysis. The study population included all children with learning disorder 7 to 10 years old in Tehran, That using Klein's method (2010), 437 children were selected by available sampling method. And the children's mothers responded to, Colorado Willcutt et al. Learning Disorder Questionnaire (2011), Dunn's Sensory Profile (1999) and Baumrind's parental parenting styles (1973). And evaluation of the model was done using the path analysis method. The findings showed that sensory processing patterns have a mediating role in the relationship between parental parenting styles and Learning Disorder in children. In general, sensory processing patterns and parental parenting styles had predictive power (R2 = 0.70) of learning disorder variable. These findings show that learning disorder is strongly influenced by parental parenting styles. And sensory processing patterns have an indirect impact on learning disorder that can provide many practical implications for therapists to improve children's learning disorder.