Qualification: NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism
Unit: Unit 04: Sensory processing, perception and cognition in individuals with autism
Learning outcome: 1 Understand how individuals with autism process sensory information
Assessment criteria: 1.5. Give examples of behaviours that may suggest an individual is hyposensitive or hypersensitive
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- Behaviours that may suggest an individual is hypersensitive or hyposensitive include:
- Squinting or displaying a pained facial expression when lights are turned on
- Avoiding people that wear strong perfume
- Putting hands over ears when they hear the siren of an emergency vehicle
- Only eating certain types of food (or eating/chewing things that are not food)
- Not wanting to wear shoes and socks
- Regularly falling over or knocking things over
- Rocking/stimming to stimulate the vestibular system
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