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Sensation Avoiding - Probable Difference - Less than others

What the score means: For Sensation Avoiding, this score means that the child withdraws from stimuli less than others. Children this age typically withdraw a little more often than this during everyday life

Since all the cut scores on the Sensory Profile are based on the normal bell curve, a ‘probable difference’ score means that the child responds less than about 84% of peers, about the same as 14% of peers and more than 2% of peers. Go to the Bell Curve illustration to see how this works.