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الملخص EN

Objective : the present study aimed to reveal the effect of sensory processing disorders on the social maturity among children with autism spectrum disorder.

methods : this study was conducted on a sample consisting of (40) children with autism, all of them male, their age average (8.33) years, with a standard deviation (1.72) years, divided into the following autism categories (simple autism category (12) children, moderate autism category (13) children, and severe autism category (15 children)).

the study was based on two tools, sue larky's sensory checklist and vineland social maturity scale (vsms) after testing their psychometric properties.

results : the results showed that the severe autism spectrum category came in the first place and then the moderate autism spectrum category and finally the simple autism spectrum category in the prevalence of all sensory processing disorders, except for the hearing processing disorder in which the moderate autism spectrum level (fourth rank) showed a greater percentage than the level severe autism spectrum (fifth rank) with slight differences.

the visual and motor sensory processing disorder was the most common sensory processing disorders within all autism categories.

also, simple autism category was better than moderate and severe autism categories in social maturity, while there was no difference between moderate and severe autism category in social maturity.

simple autism category was better than moderate and severe autism category in the visual sensory processing disorder, visual communication problems and total score of sensory processing disorder, while there were no other differences between these categories in sensory processing disorder.

conclusion : there was the possibility of predicting lowering total score of social maturity through sensory problems associated with movement, communication, nutrition, and listening among all other sensory problems.