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Sensation Avoiding - Definite Difference - More than others

What the score means: This Sensation Avoiding score is in the ‘definitely more than others’ range. For Sensation Avoiding, this means that the child responds ‘always’ to ‘occasionally’ range. Children this age are very interested in what is going on around them; the ‘typical response’ score for Sensation Avoiding is in the ‘seldom’ category.

Since all the cut scores on the Sensory Profile are based on the normal bell curve, ‘definitely more than others’ score means that the child responds more than about 98% of peers, about the same as 2% of peers. Go to the Bell Curve illustration to see how this works.