A relationship between child's characteristics of developmental disorder, characteristics of sensory processing, and difficulty of daily life

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K20889
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology; Special needs education
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: Yasuda Sayura 弘前大学, 医学研究科, 特任助手 (50743465)
• Research Collaborator: ADACHI Masaki ; TAKAHASHI Michio ; YOSHIDA Satomi ; SAITO Manabu ; NAKAMURA Kazuhiko
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 発達障害 / 幼児 / 感覚処理特性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study aims to clarify characteristics of sensory processing easily experienced by a child with a developmental disorder and also examine how such characteristics would be associated with what difficulty in his/her daily life. From the examination of a difference in characteristics of sensory processing for each diagnosis group, we determined strength in characteristics of sensory processing for the developmental disorder complication group. In addition, after conducting the semi-structured interviews with the parents, the study clarified that those children tended to easily experience a difficulty in coping skills such as thoughtful attention to others or with/without apology required appropriately for their age.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究より、発達障害を抱える児の感覚処理特性の強さや特徴、日常生活での困難さ等が確認された。これらのことから、ASDにおける社会性の問題やこだわり、ADHDにおける不注意さや多動性・衝動性のみならず、発達障害児が有する感覚処理特性についても注目することの重要性が示された。個別の感覚処理特性を把握することで、子どもへの理解が深まり、より効果的な個別支援方法の立案が可能になると考えられる。よって、本研究は発達障害を抱える子どもや支援する人々にとっても有益なものであると考える。