Cluster analysis based on sensory characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder and its impact on emotional and behavioral manifestations and parenting stress
Zhanbin Xu, Feiying Wang, Hongchao Qin, Hao Jiang, Libing Ma, Qiuyang Zhang, Jia Wang, Lijie Wu · 2026
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Zhanbin Xu and colleagues group autistic children by how they process sensory input, then compare behavior and parent stress across groups. Their 2026 study includes 225 autistic children and 228 comparison children assessed with sensory, behavior, and parenting stress questionnaires. Filtering out background sound, low energy, and movement sensitivity showed the largest gaps.
Difficulty filtering background sound affected 68.44 percent of autistic children, far above the comparison rate that the authors report in full. Clustering split the autistic group into three sensory types, beginning with a sensory adaptive type described in detail in the full report. Each type carried its own pattern of emotional and behavioral difficulty and its own level of parenting stress. Grouping by sensory profile could help match support to the child rather than treating autism as uniform.
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| CREATOR | Zhanbin Xu, Feiying Wang, Hongchao Qin, Hao Jiang, Libing Ma, Qiuyang Zhang, Jia Wang, Lijie Wu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55846 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |