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"You Don't Have Words to Describe What I Experience" - What Does Autism Feel Like?
The sensory experience of individuals with autism based on first hand accounts.
From the Geneva Centre.
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Central Auditory Processing Disorders - Parents Page
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
This site is devoted to auditory processing disorders and all related speech and learning disabilities.
This web site is intended for the parents whose child has been diagnosed with CAPD or suspect their child may have the disorder.
This site features information on:
Speech delays and disorders,Learning disabilities and special education,Education law,Attention deficit disorder,Dyslexia,Writing disorders,Math learning disabilities,Books for parents,Mailing lists ,Online discussion groups
A very useful and well organized site.
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Why do they put everything in their mouths?
One of the earliest fine moter skill children develop is the skill of "sensation". Sensation is the skill we use to tell the difference between a quarter and a dime by touch without needing to look at the coins.
Cognitively young children have their best sensation descrimination in their mouths. By mouthing objects and then feeling them with their hands, children correlate the sensations from two different sensory input channels.
,This "sensory intgration" helps them to tune up the sensory apparatus in the hands. As the hands become more sensitive, children will need to put things in their mouths less and less.
During this oral stage it is important to offer many textured grasp and handle toys. Dragonfly offers a full collection of well designed and easy to handle toys of this type.