Frequency Of Self-Injurious Behavior

behaviors. The case study I will be performing is based off this out of date case study. The case study I will be performing will be retesting this study, but it will contain a larger number of participants, and will focus on a narrower age range. The previous studies case study included participants ranged from ages 8 to 19 years of age. My case study will contain 15 participants; all the participants will be elementary school students between the ages of 5 and 10. Smith et al. (2005) hypothesized that sensory integration intervention will reduce the frequency of engagement in self-stimulating and self-injurious behaviors compared to a control intervention. Before starting the study, participants were asked to take a Sensory Integration Inventory, which was used to help determine the participant’s sensory needs, before getting started the study then consisted over a 4-week period, during the 1st and 3rd week. …show more content…
Then during weeks 2 and 4, the study consists of a 30-minute control session, in which participants were asked to complete table top activities. Participants completing the sessions will then be recorded for 15 minutes prior to the start of the intervention, during the intervention, and immediately after the intervention has been put in place. The 15-minute video segments were then used by the researchers to determine the frequency of self-injurious behaviors. As a result of Smith, Press, Koenig, and Kinnealey (2005) study, there was no change immediately following sensory integration intervention however, after a latency period, they report a reduction in self-injurious