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Sensory Integration and Learning Disabilities: Ayres' Factor Analyses Reappraised

Robert A. Cummins

Robert A. Cummins, PhD, is senior lecturer in psychology at Victoria College-Toorak. In addition he is principal investigator with the Disability Program Evaluation Unit, which has major responsibility for evaluating government services to people with intellectual disabilities in Victoria. His research and writing activities focus on debunking remedial education myths, the effects of deinstitutionalization, and quality of life measurement. Address: Robert A. Cummins, Victoria College-Toorak, PO Box 224, Malvern, Victoria 3144, Australia

Between 1965 and 1987 Ayres published eight papers that contain among them 10 multivariate analyses that bear upon her conception of sensory integration. These analyses purport to have identified factors that emerge from the scores of children with learning disabilities but not from the scores of academically nondisabled children. A reappraisal of these analyses in combination finds no support for this claim. As a consequence, these data provide no validity for either the diagnostic procedures or the remedial programs for children with learning disabilities that have been derived from this work.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 24, No. 3, 160-168 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949102400304
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