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| Contribution title | 3447 - The relation between the parents’ attachment style and the sensory profile of children with ASD |
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| Contribution code | PS02-81 (P) |
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Context: how the brain perceives the environment and integrates the sensory information is not only determined by genetic factors but also by the environment and early sensory-motor experiences. The quality of interaction between the child and the caregiver is important for the development of the brain. This interaction is highly modulated by the attachment style of the caregiver. Aim: The relation between the attachment style of the parents and the sensory perception abnormalities of the children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Methodology: it is a descriptive analytic study, conducted on 51 children with ASD and their parents between January and February 2016, in the outpatient unite of child and adolescent psychiatry in Monastir, Tunisia. The diagnosis of ASD was established using the criteria of DSM-5 and the Childhood Autism Rating Scale. The sensory profile 2 for toddler was used to describe the sensory perception abnormalities and the revised adult attachment scale to describe the parents’ attachment style. Chi-square and Pearson tests were used to analyze the hypothesis of the association between the sensory abnormalities and the attachment style. Results: the mean age of the children was 3 years 8 months and the sex ratio was 4 (mostly boys). In 70% of cases, the parent interviewed was the mother. The oral domain was altered in 66%, the auditory domain in 56% and the general perception domain in 54%. In 31% of cases, the sensory profile of the toddler was “Avoidant”, in 14% was “sensor” and in 11% was “bystander”. We founded a significant relation between hyper sensitivity to auditory stimulus and insecure attachment style of the parent, P=0.03. Hypo sensitivity to visual stimulus was also significantly related to insecure attachment style of the parent, P=0.003. There were no statically relation between any of the remaining abnormalities or specific sensory profile and the attachment style of the parent. Conclusion: we found a relation between abnormalities in auditory and visual perception of the children with ASD and the attachment style of the parents. The relation between them should be more investigated: did the sensorial abnormalities of the child alter the quality of the attachment of the parents or the altered quality of attachment and the interaction parent-child aggravate the sensorial abnormalities of the ASD child? |