Sensory Processing (PDF 81.3KB) gives an overview of how sensory processing varies for people with autism.
Using a drawing of a student, it explains that students with autism may:
- have trouble focusing or concentrating
- cry and shielf their eyes from the sun and other bright lights
- have poor fine motor skills such as hand writing and cutting
- be overly sensitive to loud sounds such as vacuums and blenders
- chew on everything
- be smelling people and objects
- have difficulty getting dressed themselves
- sit with their legs in a 'w' position
- put their socks on 'just so' or may never go barefoot
- walk on their tip toes
- have poor gross motor skills, such as running and riding a bike
- being tickled or cuddled
- complain about tags on clothing
- be a picky eater and resist new foods
- have selective hearing or listening
- seem be unaware of normal touch or pain.
