Aspergers In Kids Dubai | Over Or Under Sensitivity To Sensory Inputs Can Cause Your Child Discomfort
Aspergers in kids Dubai: Identifying sensory issues causing discomfort, how it can affect behaviour & how to manage it
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Aspergers in kids Dubai: Identify sensory issues in children with Aspergers Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome is seen at the high end of Autism Spectrum Disorders. They may have average intelligence and apparently normal language but have difficulties with social communication and social behaviour.
Another area of difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorders including Asperger’s Syndrome is processing everyday sensory information. Any of the senses may be over- or under-sensitive, or both, at different times. These sensory differences can affect behaviour and can impact a person’s life.
A person who struggles to deal with everyday sensory information can experience sensory overload or information overload. This overload can result in stress, anxiety, and even physical pain. The child may then withdraw or have tantrums. If a child is having a meltdown remember it may be because of sensory overload.
Aspergers In Kids Dubai
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Aspergers in kids Dubai: Sight
Over-sensitive
- Sensitivity to light
- Focus on details rather than whole and distorted vision
Under-sensitive
- Dark
- Blurred images
- The difficulty with depth perception so clumsy in catching and throwing
Adaptations
Changes to the environment such as
- Reducing fluorescent lighting
- Providing sunglasses
- Using blackout curtains
- Creating a workstation in the classroom – a space or desk with high walls or dividers on both sides to block out visual distractions.
Aspergers in kids Dubai: Sound
Under-sensitive
- May ignore certain sounds
- May enjoy banging doors or toys
Over-sensitive
- Sounds can be distorted
- Over-magnified and distracting
Adaptations
- Shut doors and windows
- Block sounds with help of earmuffs or music
- Seat child far away from the crowd
Aspergers in kids Dubai: Taste
Under-sensitive
May like very spicy foods or pick up things from the ground and put in their mouth- PICA.
Over-sensitive
- Eat restricted and bland foods
- Eat only pureed foods
Aspergers in kids Dubai: Smell
Under-sensitive
- Fail to notice their body odour
- Lick things to get a sense of it and get attracted to strong smells like that of faeces
Over-sensitive
Smells may be overpowering and may resist toileting or people with perfumes
Aspergers in kids Dubai: Touch
Adaptations
- Using weighted blankets or sleeping bags
- For chewing
- Offering latex-free tubes
- Straws or hard sweets
Under-sensitive
- Has a high pain thresh hold
- Holds others tightly
- Needs heavy blankets
- Chews things
- May not feel the food in the mouth
Over-sensitive
Touch can be painful and uncomfortable
- The child may not like to be touched
- Dislikes having anything on hands or feet
- Difficulties brushing and washing hair because the head is sensitive
- May find many food textures uncomfortable
- Only tolerates certain types of clothing or textures
Adaptations
- Warning the child before touching them
- Always approach them from the front
- Remembering that a hug may be painful rather than comforting
- Changing the texture of food (eg purée it)
- Slowly introducing different textures around the person’s mouth, such as a flannel, a toothbrush, and some different foods
Aspergers In Kids Dubai
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