The Touch Inventory for Elementary-School-Aged Children: Test–Retest Reliability and Mother–Child Correlations

Bennett, Jennifer W.; Peterson, Cindee Q.

doi:10.5014/ajot.49.8.795

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“…Perhaps the unique challenges posed to persons with developmental disabilities may include difficulties communicating sensory needs and experiences to caregivers; thus, sensory-defensive experiences could be underreported by caregivers. Discrepancies between self and caregiver reports (Bennett & Peterson, 1995) and discrepancies between different formats (Baranek & Berkson, 1994) for assessment of tactile defensiveness have been described previously. No direct prevalence comparisons can be made to typical populations because such data are not available.…”

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confidence: 98%

Sensory Defensiveness in Persons with Developmental Disabilities

Baranek

Foster

Berkson

1997

The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research

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This study describes the relative prevalence of sensorydefensive behaviors in a large sample of children and adults with developmental disabilities and provides empirical evidence for a construct of sensory defensiveness comprised of two subtypes. AbstractLittle empirical data about the nature oftactile defensiveness and other types of sensory defensiveness are available. Clinicians speculate that these various phenomena are related as partof the more general construct ofsensory defensiveness. Furthermore, although it is suspected that these behaviors are prevalent in persons with developmental disabilities, no estimates are currently available. This study used data from a 54-item

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Section: Relative Prevalencementioning

confidence: 98%

Sensory Defensiveness in Persons with Developmental Disabilities

Baranek

Foster

Berkson

1997

The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research

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“…Low parent-child agreement was also demonstrated in other similar studies (Rapee, Barrett, Dadds & Evans, 1994;Wachtel, Rodrigue, Geffken, GrahamPole & Turner, 1994). Bennet and Peterson (1995) who studied the agreement between non-tactile defensive children's scores on the TIE and their mothers' scores on a modified version of the TIE, also reported only slight or fair agreement between scores. In an effort to increase parent-child agreement, Nguyen et al (1994) used clinician's clinical judgements to improve parent-child (5-12 years old) agreement on depressed children's symptoms.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Test-retest reliability for the TIE was found by Royeen (1987b) to be r = 0.588; p = 0.001. Recently, Bennet and Peterson (1995), who used a larger sample than Royeen and a shorter interval between tests, established highly significant test retest reliability for the TIE (r = 0.91; p <0.001).…”

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A comparison of self‐report and informant report of tactile defensiveness amongst children in Israel

Parush

Doryon

Katz

1996

Occupation Therapy Intl

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“…They were required to rate these situations on a 3-point scale in terms of the level of inconvenience: 'no', 'a little', 'a lot'. The TIE has a good internal reliability (a coefficient alpha of 0.79 and standardized alpha 0.79), 15 test-retest reliability (r=0.91, p<0.001), 21 and validity (discriminant analysis: p=0.007, 85% correct classification). 15 The English TIE was translated into Dutch for the current study using double translation procedures (i.e.…”

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Sex differences in tactile defensiveness in children with ADHD and their siblings

Bröring¹,

Rommelse²,

Sergeant³

et al. 2008

Develop Med Child Neuro

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Tactile defensiveness (TD) is a disturbance in sensory processing and is observed in some children with attentiondeficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). TD has been examined in male children with ADHD and in children with ADHD without differentiating by sex. As males and females with ADHD may differ in the clinical expression of the disorder and associated deficits, the aim of this study was to examine sex differences in TD in males and females with ADHD. Non-affected siblings were also examined to investigate familiality of TD. The Touch Inventory for Elementary-School-Aged Children was administered to 47 children with ADHD (35 males, 12 females; mean age 9y 8mo [SD 1y 11mo]), 36 non-affected siblings (21 males, 15 females; mean age 8y 10mo [SD 2y 4mo]), and 35 control children (16 males, 19 females; mean age 9y 5mo [SD 6mo]). Results indicated that females with ADHD displayed higher levels of TD than males with ADHD (who did not differ from control males). This suggests that TD is sex specific and may contribute to the identification of ADHD in females, thus improving diagnostic and therapeutic strength in this underreferred group. Non-affected siblings were unimpaired, regardless of sex, which suggests that TD is specific to the disorder and not part of a familial risk for ADHD.Attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 1 is a common neuropsychiatric developmental disorder, which is estimated to affect between 3 and 11% of children and adolescents. 2 The core clinical symptoms of ADHD (inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity) are often accompanied by associated symptoms such as sleep problems, reduced motor coordination, and impaired balance. 2 Sex possibly influences the clinical manifestation of ADHD and the extent to which associated symptoms of ADHD occur. Three studies found that females with ADHD showed relatively lower levels of hyperactivity and fewer diagnoses of conduct disorder and other comorbid disruptive behavior problems compared with males with ADHD. 3-5 However, it was also found that females with ADHD have greater intellectual impairment, 4,5 a higher prevalence of the predominantly inattentive subtype of ADHD, 3 and are more at risk for substance-use disorders. 3 One study found no sex difference with respect to impulsivity, academic performance, social functioning, and/or fine motor skills. 4 Further study may help to determine whether differences exist between males and females with ADHD.Relatively little is known about sex differences in disorders associated with ADHD, such as sensory processing disorders. Recent literature suggests that children with ADHD show a disturbance in sensory processing and integration of tactile stimuli. 6-9 One area of dysfunction in sensory processing disorders is called tactile defensiveness (TD). 10,11 TD is often observed in children with autism, learning disability,* fragile X syndrome, emotional disturbances, and specific learning difficulties. [10][11][12][13][14] Individuals with TD show a tendency to 'react negatively and emotionally to certa...

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The Touch Inventory for Elementary-School-Aged Children: Test–Retest Reliability and Mother–Child Correlations

Abstract: These results suggest that using information from both mothers and children might provide a more complete picture of tactile defensiveness, but further research is needed before using a mother's assessment when the TIE is implemented as a standard procedure.

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Sensory Defensiveness in Persons with Developmental Disabilities

Sensory Defensiveness in Persons with Developmental Disabilities

A comparison of self‐report and informant report of tactile defensiveness amongst children in Israel

Sex differences in tactile defensiveness in children with ADHD and their siblings

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