%0 Journal Article
%T Assessing body sensations in children: Intra
%A Belinda McLean
%A Catherine Elliott
%A Eve Blair
%A Leeanne M Carey
%A Sonya Girdler
%A Susan Taylor
%A Torbjorn Falkmer
%J British Journal of Occupational Therapy
%@ 1477-6006
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0308022618786933
%X This article examines the effect of age and gender on somatosensory capacity for children and adolescents, and provides preliminary normative data and reliability for the SenScreen£¿ Kids, a new standardised measure of touch, wrist position sense and haptic object recognition. A cross-sectional study of 88 typically developing children aged 6¨C15 years (mean 10.3 years; SD 2.6 years) was used to determine the developmental effects of age and gender on somatosensory capacity. Intra-rater reliability was assessed in 22 of the 88 participants at two time points (mean 8.8 years; SD 2.6 years). Statistically significant differences were observed between age groups for tactile discrimination, wrist position sense and haptic object recognition, but not for touch registration for which all except one participant achieved a maximum score. There was no effect of gender. Three of four SenScreen Kids subtests demonstrated good intra-rater agreement between time points. Somatosensory capacity increased with age for typically developing children aged 6¨C15 years. Three subtests of the SenScreen Kids demonstrated good intra-rater reliability with typically developing children. Further investigation of reliability is required, and all subtests require psychometric testing with clinical populations
%K Adolescent
%K child
%K outcome assessment
%K proprioception
%K stereognosis
%K touch
%K occupational therapy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308022618786933