Table 3.

Descriptive Statistics by Behavior

	Hyperreponsive	Hyporesponsive	Sensory Seeking	Repetitive/Stereotypic
Total Instances (total children)	n=110 (18)	n=3 (1)	n=145 (21)	n=80 (12)
Average Duration (range)	50 seconds (6 – 399)	9.5 seconds (6 – 11)	46 seconds (5 – 512)	89 seconds (1 – 1183)
Activities
Activities of Daily Living	86 (78.2%)	0	1 (0.69%)	6 (7.5%)
Social Activities	0	0	19 (13.1%)	1 (1.2%)
Free Play Activities	24 (21.8%)	3 (100%)	125 (86.2%)	73 (91.3%)
Sensory Modalities†
Tactile	44 (40%)	0	48 (33.1%)	1 (1.3%)
Auditory	25 (22.7%)	3 (100%)	31 (21.4%)	31 (38.8%)
Gustatory	38 (34.5%)	0	4 (2.8%)	0
Olfactory	0	0	0	0
Visual	9 (8.2%)	0	48 (33.1%)	63 (78.8%)
Vestibular/Proprioceptive	0	0	82 (56.6%)	9 (11.3%)
Multiple	6 (5.5%)	0	43 (29.7%)	36 (45%)
Stimulus Characteristics
Novel	9 (8.2%)	0	2 (1.4%)	0
Familiar	101 (91.8%)	3 (100%)	143 (98.6%)	68 (85%)
Child-Initiated	3 (2.7%)	0	140 (96.6%)	65 (81.2%)
Family-Initiated	107 (97.3%)	3 (100%)	5 (3.4%)	3 (3.8%)
Social	0	3 (100%)	15 (10.3%)	2 (2.5%)
Nonsocial	110 (100%)	0	130 (89.7%)	66 (82.5%)
Unknown Stimulus	0	0	0	12 (15%)

Notes.

^†, Individual modality percentages total over 100 due to allowance for multiple modalities to be coded for a single behavior; ‘Multiple’ row lists number (and percentage) of behaviors associated with more than one modality (see Table 4).