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Sensory Processing Measure, Second Edition (SPM-2)
L. Diane Parham, Cheryl L. Ecker, Heather Kuhaneck, Diana A. Henry & Tara J. Glennon
Overview
The Sensory Processing Measure, Second Edition (SPM-2) offers a complete picture of sensory integration and processing challenges in multiple environments and across all stages of life. It also provides item-level intervention strategies to help individuals manage sensory processing difficulties through SPM-2 Quick Tips.
Suitable for
Suitable for use with ages 4 months to 87 years.
Product Description
SPM-2 is an expanded and updated version of the widely respected Sensory Processing Measure (SPM) and Sensory Processing Measure – Preschool (SPM-P). With new forms and a broadened age range, SPM-2 ensures that no age group is left behind.
Like its predecessors, the new SPM-2 is firmly grounded in Ayres Sensory Integration® theory. T-scores provide norm-referenced indexes of the integrative functions of praxis and social participation, as well as the following sensory systems:
- Visual
- Auditory
- Tactile
- Olfactory and Gustatory (new in SPM-2)
- Proprioceptive
- Vestibular
Items capture processing vulnerabilities like under-reactivity, over-reactivity, sensory-seeking behaviour, and perceptual challenges – providing in-depth clinical insight.
What’s new in the SPM-2
The SPM-2 retains the essential qualities of the original tools while offering the following upgrades:
- Expanded age range: Ages 4 months to 87 years
- New and revised forms across five age levels: Infant/Toddler, Preschool, Child, Adolescent, and Adult
- New forms, including Driving Environment Forms
- Updated US norms based on a national standardisation sample
- Ability to compare sensory integration and processing function between individuals
- SPM-2 Quick Tips now included in every Preschool and Child kit
- New clinical validity studies, including:
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- sensory processing disorders
- autism spectrum disorders
- ADHD
- intellectual and developmental disabilities
- speech and language difficulties
- mental health disorders
Multiple raters, integrated assessment
The SPM-2 is designed to assess clients across the life span, with unique forms in each of the five age levels. At each level, forms may be used independently or jointly to provide an overview of a client’s sensory functioning across multiple environments and raters.
Each main form contains 80 Likert-type items that take approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete. Shorter School Environment and Driving Environment Forms take 10 minutes, containing 15 to 18 items.
SPM-2 forms by age level:
Infant/Toddler (4 to 30 months)
Parents and caregivers rate an infant or toddler and rate themselves on their own sensory integration and processing function.
- Infant Form
- Toddler Form
- Caregiver Self-Report Form
Preschool (2 to 5 years)
Parents, caregivers, and school providers rate a preschool-aged child within the home and school environments.
- Home Form
- School Form
Child (5 to 12 years)
Parents, caregivers, and school staff rate a school-aged child within the home and school environments.
- Home Form
- School Form
- School Environment Forms
Adolescent (12 to 21 years)
Adolescents rate themselves, and parents, caregivers, and school staff rate the adolescent within the home and school environments.
- Home Form
- School Form
- Self-Report Form
- Adolescent Driving Environment Forms
Adult (21 to 87 years)
Adults rate themselves, and spouses, partners, parents, other adult family members, or caregivers rate the adult within the home and community environments.
- Rater Report Form
- Self-Report Form
- Adult Driving Environment Forms
SPM-2 Scales
Main form scales include:
- Vision
- Hearing
- Touch
- Taste and Smell
- Body Awareness
- Balance and Motion
- Sensory Total
- Planning and Ideas
- Social Participation
SPM-2 Quick Tips for intervention
After administering the SPM-2, the assessment guides you to appropriate intervention strategies within the SPM-2 Quick Tips, currently available for the Preschool and Child age levels.
The SPM-2 Quick Tips provide simple, straightforward suggestions, tasks, and activities directly linked to each SPM-2 item. Designed to help clients manage, minimise, or cope with sensory integration and processing challenges, these tips leverage Ayres Sensory Integration principles and specific sensory techniques. They are ideal for implementation by various individuals involved in a client’s care, including parents, teachers, occupational therapy practitioners, and mental health professionals.
Qualification level required:
Level 2. Please see our?Test User Qualifications page?for guidance.
Reliability
Evidence supporting reliability included median estimates of internal consistency of .86, test–retest reliability of .84, alternate-forms reliability of .78, and interrater reliability of .66.
Test Validity
Comprehensive development procedures, concurrent administration of key measures, and findings from clinical groups yielded evidence supporting content validity, construct validity, and criterion-related validity.
Norms
Based on 3,850 typically developing participants, ranging in age from 4 months to 87 years (US norms).
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