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Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire (PSEQ) and Parent Effort Scale (PES)

After an extensive development process, Dr. Beth Pfeiffer and her team have developed three new assessment tools. The Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire (PSEQ) and the Participation and Sensory Environment - Teacher Version (PSEQ-TV) are designed to help parents and clinicians determine how the sensory environment impacts on a child's ability to participate in everyday activities. The Parent Effort Scale (PES) helps quantify the amount of effort a parent must expend to support a child’s participation in common home and community activities of daily living.

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Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire (PSEQ)

Description: The Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire (PSEQ)was developed by a team of researchers to help clinicians in intervention planning and parents in navigating and communicating with others about how the complicated sensory world of their preschool aged children impacts participation in daily activities in home and community environments. The tool was initially developed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), but went through additional research for children without ASD.

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PSEQ Scoring

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Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire - Teacher Version (PSEQ-TV)

Description: The Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire-Teacher Version (PSEQ-TV) was developed by a team of researchers to identify aspects of the sensory environment or sensory features of the activity that impact participation in common preschool classroom activities. This is self-report measure completed by the child’s teacher intended to guide intervention planning for occupational therapists and educators. The tool is developed for use with preschool aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

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Parent Effort Scale (PES)

Description: The Parent Effort Scale (PES) is a questionnaire developed by a team of researchers to measure the amount of perceived effort (work) parents have to expend in order to help their child participate in everyday activities. The tool was initially developed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), but went through additional research for children without ASD. It was initially developed to report on parental effort to support participation in daily activities in children ages 3 to 7 years old, but is suggested for use in children up to 10 years of age.

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* Upon completion of the PSEQ, the PSEQ-TV, or the PES, you will receive an email with your scores. A de-identified version of your responses will be used as part of a larger research study to further develop and refine the measurement tool.

Please be advised that these are clinical research versions of the PSEQ, PSEQ-TV and PES that will be constantly updated and revised as we learn from them.

Clinicians, feel free to use this information in any way that you feel it will benefit your practice and your clients' understanding their child's responses to the Sensory Environment .

Research for the development of the Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire and the Parent Effort Scale was partially supported by funding from the Boston Rehabilitation Outcome Center under a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (#5R24HD065688-05; A. Jette, P.I.), as part of the Medical Rehabilitation Research Infrastructure Network. Additional funding was provided from a Temple University Inter-Department Research Grant.