Sensory Profile 2

The Sensory Profile™ 2 family of assessments provides you with standardised tools to help evaluate a child's sensory processing patterns in the context of everyday life. These significantly revised questionnaires can help you determine how sensory processing may be contributing to or interfering with the child's participation in activities. The forms are completed by caregivers and teachers, who are in the strongest position to observe the child's response to sensory interactions that occur throughout the day.

Recommended Uses

The Sensory Profile 2 helps you:

• Identify and document the effect of sensory processing on a child's participation at home, school, and the community
• Contribute valuable information to a comprehensive assessment of the child's sensory strengths and challenges
• Develop effective treatment plans, interventions, and everyday remediation strategies

Content & Administration

Using age-appropriate questionnaires, caregivers and teachers report on the child's response to sensory events throughout the day.

• Infant Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for babies from Birth–6 months.
• Toddler Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for toddlers aged 7–35 months.
• Child Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for children aged 3–14 years.
• Short Sensory Profile: Caregivers complete this form for children aged 3–14 years. Items on this questionnaire, which are drawn from the Child Sensory Profile, are highly discriminating and provide quick information for screening and research programs.
• School Companion Sensory Profile: Teachers complete this form for their students aged 3–14 years.

Features & Benefits

• Offers updated content
• Presents information on the Infant, Toddler, Child, and School Companion forms in one manual—no need to purchase separate kits
• Reports percentiles for an additional level of analysis
• Gives you a choice of online or paper record forms to fit with your workflow
• Provides web-based scoring and reporting with Q-global for greater portability and ease-of-use
• Includes enhanced reporting options to give you the confidence to take the next steps
• Captures the child's responses to sensory experiences throughout the day, which helps shed light on factors that may be influencing the child's behaviour
• Presents a comprehensive view of a child's responses across settings, which helps facilitate discussion between families and professionals about strategies that support the child's participation in all contexts
• Offers you an evidence-based tool that is built on extensive evidence from the first editions of the Sensory Profile™, including international research demonstrating the usefulness of data

FAQs

These links below are to a series of audio files where Winnie Dunn responds to the following questions:

• Isn’t it better to complete the Sensory Profile 2 with the teacher and parent?
• Some of the strategies for supporting a child are the same for HIGH or LOW sensory pattern scores; what does that mean?
• How is it possible for a child to have more than others’ scores on multiple sensory patterns? 
• What’s up with some of the Registration items on the Toddler Sensory Profile 2?
• Do you support people from other disciplines administering the Sensory Profiles?
• How do I deal with two different classroom teachers giving me different scores on the School Companion?

• SP2-Child Combined Score Item Analysis Report Sample
• Sensory Profile 2 Child Full Assessment and Planning Report
• Sensory Profile 2 Child Score Summary Report
• Sensory Profile 2 Child Multi-rater Report
• Sensory Profile 2 School Full Assessment and Planning Report

Scoring and Reporting

Each form includes some combination of Sensory System, Behavioural, and Sensory Pattern scores:

• Sensory System scores: Auditory, Visual, Touch, Movement, Body Position, Oral
• Behaviour scores: Attention, Behavioural, Social-Emotional
• Sensory Pattern scores: Registration, Seeking, Sensitivity, Avoiding
• School Factor scores:
  • School Factor 1 (Supports)
  • School Factor 2 (Awareness)
  • School Factor 3 (Tolerance)
  • School Factor 4 (Availability)

Scoring and/or Reporting Options

Sensory Profile 2 is available on Q-global®: Pearson's web-based administration, scoring and reporting system. It enables you to quickly assess and efficiently organise examinee information, generate scores, and produce accurate, comprehensive reports - anywhere, anytime, on any internet-connected device.

Assessment and Planning Report: To link findings form the questionnaires to participation at home, in school, and in the community.

Multi-rater report: Facilitating sensory processing assessment in context.

Manual Entry: Option to use paper forms to administer the questionnaires, then use the Q-global platform to score and generate reports.

Sample Reports

• Sensory Profile 2 Child Full Assessment and Planning Report
• Sensory Profile 2 Child Score Summary Report
• Sensory Profile 2 Child Multi-rater Report
• Sensory Profile 2 School Full Assessment and Planning Report