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Understanding Autism Book Review

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Sensory Perceptions Related to Autism Today’s world presses in on us from every side, with various noises, actions, and sensations all vying for our attention. For most people, the task of filtering through these stimulations becomes an unconscious daily action. For people with autism, though, it becomes a “shrieking, blinding hurricane of sensory acid rain” that never stops tormenting them (Notbohm 7). Author Ellen Notbohm illustrates the complexity and stress of living with autism as like leading a meeting, teaching a class, writing a report, cleaning the house, and acting as a dinner guest all at the same time as riding on the world’s wildest roller coaster (7). Indeed, children and adults with autism daily wrestle with altered sensory …show more content…

In her book, Understanding Autism through Rapid Prompting Method, Soma Mukhopadhyay outlines some of the more recent research done in the field of brain research and autism. A brief summary of this research follows below. Although small and helpless, an infant is actually a complex system of sensory organisms, including over 100 billion neurons which work continually in order to perform diverse and important functions. With time, these varied functions begin to connect into organized systems that allow for the growing child to develop and perform expected age-appropriate activities. A child with autism, though, experiences these developments differently, or not at …show more content…

Even the “classroom or home setting that appears orderly to the casual observer is in fact a confusing minefield of clatter” (Notbohm 11). Some people even report hearing subtle sounds such as a heartbeat in another room. With so many different sounds vying for attention, it becomes very difficult for a person with autism to function in a relaxed manner.
Tactile Hypersensitivity: All people experience some degree of physical touch at any given time, but for an individual with autism, temperature, light touch, vibrations, and textures can cause great discomfort. Any tactile experience ranging from getting a haircut to brushing ones teeth can cause great irritation. Thankfully, with time and therapy, the discomfort of tactile hypersensitivity can be relieved.
Olfactory Hypersensitivity: Odors that most people find pleasant or even refreshing often feel disturbing or even nauseating to people with autism. Some examples of offending odors include laundry detergents, scented soaps and shampoos (even those designed for children), bathroom air fresheners, hand lotions, and after

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The three distinctive behaviours of Autism are: Repetitive behaviours, problems with verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction. When parents realize that their child has autism they should be emotionally strong. Being consistent in your child’s learning environment is very key to reinforce learning. Also they should be able to find non-verbal ways to communicate with their child. You just have to learn their language of communication.

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It might likewise clarify why they regularly get to be extremely vexed if that routine is abruptly broken. This disarray of enthusiastic reactions may clarify why kids with ASD are intrigued by points that most youngsters would discover exhausting, for example, train timetables or have modified or overstated reactions to tangible incitement, for example, tastes, sounds, smells and

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Benjy oftenly comments that Versh smells like rain, and that Caddy smells like trees. When Caddy ceases to smell like trees, Benjy bellows menacingly. People suffering from autism have many powerful senses, especially for the senses of sight and touch. Benjy is especially fascinated by light, and anything with an interesting texture to it. Caddy seems to note this, and will many times use this knowledge to help calm Benjy down.

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Communication skills will then improve with the increase in the processing of sound. When it comes to auditory hypersensitivity, the sound stimulation given through the program, allows, “the nervous system to better modulate sensory input” (Doman and Lawrence 2). When sensory input is modulated, it allows an individual to be comfortable in their environment. Children with Autism may not be comfortable in a crowded room because of the amount of auditory stimulation occurring. Using this program will allow the child to become more comfortable with auditory stimulation and will allow them to be in environments that they once felt uncomfortable

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Most people with Autism have a dysfunctional sensory system. Meaning that people with autism can be more sensitive to light, sound, and smells. When Lennie was in the situations where he was holding on the girl’s dress, holding onto Curley’s hand, and holding onto Curley’s wife’s hair. He was experiencing something called a Sensory overload. A sensory overload is one or more of the body’s senses experience over-stimulation.

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The mind of someone autistic is very up front. From what I learned from the book, they do not understand emotion as well as we do. For example, the boy with autism would carry a piece of paper with him that had pictures with different facial expressions depicting emotions on it. When he was confused on how someone felt about something, he would look at his piece of paper and match the face with the person, showing him how to react. Also, they all have special quirks about them, as shown in the book.

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