Sensory Issues
 
(2 videos)  
1. The Experience 2. The Issues

1.	Animated Audio 
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Ricki G. Robinson, MD
Author of “Autism Solutions”:
All individuals with autism have what we call sensory processing disorders, but it does not mean that if you have a sensory processing disorder that you have autism. And so what do I mean by that? Well, sensory processing disorders means that the way in which you either take in information from your environment or from your own body, um, although all of the organs, like the eyes and the ears and the tongue might be working, um, what, working Ok; um, once it gets to the brain, the interpretation or the processing of this information isn’t making sense.

Dr. Temple Grandin
Author / Autism Activist:
One of the things that needs to be researched are sensory problems. Sensory sensitivity is very, very debilitating. How can you be social if you can’t tolerate being in a, in a restaurant with five TVs going on at once? It’s going to make it really difficult to be, to be social, and we need to figure out better ways to diagnose sensory problems and better ways to treat them.

Florence Clark, PhD
Occupational Therapist / Autism Scholar:
Sensory integration, um, as an intervention, was really developed by Dr. A. Jean Ayres.
SENSORY ISSUES

Child, Rowan Graham:
Eeeehh.

Florence Clark:
The sense of the core self, the sense that I’m a self really means I have a body scheme that, and I know where my body begins and ends. And I also have a spatial visual scheme about the environment. And on top of that, I have ideas about objects and what they do and what I can do with these objects. 

Occupational Therapist 1, Susan Raseii:
Ok, remember not to squish your friend.

Occupational Therapist 2, Janet Gunter:
Oh, oh.

Child, Rowan Graham:
Eeeehh. (squeal)