The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities

Stereotyped movements (SM), including stereotyped self-injurious behaviour (SIB), are common among children with developmental and sensory disorders, but it is not known if SIB is a more severe form of SM or whether SIB and SM differ in kind. We developed the Stereotyped and Self-Injurious Movement...

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Main Authors: Gal, E., Dyck, Murray, Passmore, Anne
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13296
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Dyck, Murray
Passmore, Anne
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description Stereotyped movements (SM), including stereotyped self-injurious behaviour (SIB), are common among children with developmental and sensory disorders, but it is not known if SIB is a more severe form of SM or whether SIB and SM differ in kind. We developed the Stereotyped and Self-Injurious Movement Interview (SSIMI) to assess injurious and non-injurious SM. The SSIMI was administered to children with autism (n=56), intellectual disability (n=29), vision impairment (n=50), hearing impairment (n=51), and typical children (n=30). Results indicate that the reliability of measurement increases when SIB and other SM items are included in a single scale, that SIB is rarely evident in the absence of other SM (but not vice versa), that between group differences in the prevalence of SIB are paralleled by differences in the prevalence of other SM, and that correlations between SIB and other SM are moderately strong in autism, vision impaired, and intellectual disability groups but not in typical and hearing impaired groups. We conclude that the SSIMI is a useful measure of SIB and other SM. Among children with autism, vision impairment, or intellectual disability, SIB appear to represent a more severe form of SM. Both SIB and other SM may result from impairments in intellectual and sensory processing.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-132962017-09-13T16:04:16Z The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities Gal, E. Dyck, Murray Passmore, Anne Stereotyped movements (SM), including stereotyped self-injurious behaviour (SIB), are common among children with developmental and sensory disorders, but it is not known if SIB is a more severe form of SM or whether SIB and SM differ in kind. We developed the Stereotyped and Self-Injurious Movement Interview (SSIMI) to assess injurious and non-injurious SM. The SSIMI was administered to children with autism (n=56), intellectual disability (n=29), vision impairment (n=50), hearing impairment (n=51), and typical children (n=30). Results indicate that the reliability of measurement increases when SIB and other SM items are included in a single scale, that SIB is rarely evident in the absence of other SM (but not vice versa), that between group differences in the prevalence of SIB are paralleled by differences in the prevalence of other SM, and that correlations between SIB and other SM are moderately strong in autism, vision impaired, and intellectual disability groups but not in typical and hearing impaired groups. We conclude that the SSIMI is a useful measure of SIB and other SM. Among children with autism, vision impairment, or intellectual disability, SIB appear to represent a more severe form of SM. Both SIB and other SM may result from impairments in intellectual and sensory processing. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13296 10.1016/j.ridd.2008.06.003 Elsevier fulltext
spellingShingle Gal, E.
Dyck, Murray
Passmore, Anne
The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities
title The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities
title_full The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities
title_fullStr The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities
title_short The relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities
title_sort relationship between stereotyped movements and self-injurious behavior in children with developmental or sensory disabilities
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13296