Autistic Behaviour

The theory of sensory integration dysfunction was formulated by A. J. Ayres to describe a variety of neurological disorders. At present it still remains a theory and has no much recognition from the fields outside occupational therapy. There is still much scepticism and criticism of SID. The article tries to answer ...

Autism has often associated with auditory processing disorders. The article gives general information on Central Auditory Disorder, its treatments and possible implications for autism.

The article describes Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome, the Irlen method to address the problem and its implication to autism.

The article is a brilliant first-hand account of 'invisible' (for non-autistic community) but very serious problems autistic individuals experience in their everyday life. Read the evidence of a lowered quality of life that does not have to be.

We often want autistic children to make eye contact with us while we are talking to them ('Look at me!')We often do not understand that avoidance of direct perception is their attempt to understand what we are talking about. The article describes peripheral perception as one of compensatory strategies autistic people ...

Autistic children seem to develop the ability to control their awareness of incoming sensory stimuli in order to survive in the world bombarding them with extraneous information. These compensatory or defensive strategies are reflected in acquired perceptual styles. The article describes one of these acquired strategies - mono-processing.

The article shows how differences in time we need to process information from the outside world lead to differences in subjective experience of time by autistic and non-autistic individuals.

The article briefly describes a neurological condition known as prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, that is not specific to autism but seems to be quite common in autistic population.

Our understanding of autism is still fragmented, and we think about this disorder as a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. However, for autistic people, fragmentation of the world is not just a metaphor, it is real. The article attempts to describe what it is like to live in the 'fragmented world' ...

What is gestalt perception? Why does the ability to perceive more accurate and larger amount of 'raw' sensory data become a deficit in autism? The article attempts to answer these questions.