Sensory Challenges During a Pandemic: Providing & Accessing Therapy - Parents and Carers

Please complete this survey if you are you an individual with sensory integration or processing difficulties or a family member or carer of an individual sensory integration or processing difficulties?

Introduction to the Survey

Welcome to this short survey on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the sensory community. Thank you for participating. Your responses are collected and stored securely and completely anonymously.

By sensory integration or processing difficulties, we mean trouble with managing and reacting to information that comes in through the senses. This could mean that certain sounds, sights, smells, textures, and tastes can trigger a feeling of being overwhelmed. Or in some people, it can mean that they seek more sensory input: they may want to touch things; feel physical contact and pressure; they may prefer strong spicy or sour tastes.

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* 1. Are you:

An individual with sensory integration or processing difficulties (there doesn’t need to have been a formal diagnosis).

The parent or family member of an individual with sensory integration or processing difficulties (there doesn’t need to have been a formal diagnosis).

The carer of an individual with sensory integration or processing difficulties (there doesn’t need to have been a formal diagnosis).

None of the above

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* 2. Have you or the individual you care for been able to access therapy for your sensory difficulties during the pandemic:

Yes - but only by the internet or phone

Yes - in person

Yes - by a blend of in-person and remote therapy

No, my therapy has been on hold

I was not receiving therapy before the pandemic

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* 3. If you have accessed therapy via the phone or internet, what do you think of it and would you be happy to continue to access therapy in that format?

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* 4. Can you outline how the pandemic conditions have negatively impacted your sensory challenges or those of the person you care for?

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* 5. Have there been any upsides of the pandemic conditions in relation to your sensory challenges or those of the person you care for?

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* 6. Not thinking about the pandemic conditions now, can you think of a moment when someone understanding your sensory challenges made a big difference to your life? (This could be absolutely anyone: a therapist, teacher, family member, someone working in customer services, etc)

Sensory Challenges During a Pandemic: Providing & Accessing Therapy - Parents and Carers

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* 1. Are you:

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* 2. Have you or the individual you care for been able to access therapy for your sensory difficulties during the pandemic:

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* 3. If you have accessed therapy via the phone or internet, what do you think of it and would you be happy to continue to access therapy in that format?

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* 4. Can you outline how the pandemic conditions have negatively impacted your sensory challenges or those of the person you care for?

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* 5. Have there been any upsides of the pandemic conditions in relation to your sensory challenges or those of the person you care for?

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* 6. Not thinking about the pandemic conditions now, can you think of a moment when someone understanding your sensory challenges made a big difference to your life? (This could be absolutely anyone: a therapist, teacher, family member, someone working in customer services, etc)

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* 7. In what country do you live?