What’s the Difference Between Sensory Sensitivity and Autism?
Can anyone explain to me the difference between sensory sensitivity and autism? My son is 2 and he’s going to have an autism evaluation. He has speech delay and although now his vocabulary and understanding has grown he still can’t communicate what he wants just by using words. His speech therapist was concerned because he got mad the other day and started crying and throwing his head back and pacing around the room. We noticed now when he gets mad he paces around the room until one of us goes and try to calm him down. We noticed he’s been getting frustrated when he can’t do something on his own or we don’t understand what he wants. He also doesn’t like when we raise our voice but other loud noises it is fine. We decided an autism evaluation was what was best for him to see if he needed anymore help ☺️
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Is your son diagnosed w autism already? Seems a little young for a diagnoses.the behavior u refer to in this post is normal for a 2 year old.
@bubbys.mommy, so his audiologist just recently recommended occupation therapy for him because he got ear tubes placed when he was one for chronic ear infections and they haven’t been able to one test that requires headphones to rule out any type of hearing loss. His speech therapist informed our case worker about the autism evaluation so as soon as I get in contact with her I’ll ask her about aba therapy can you tell me more about aba?
@bubbys.mommy, my sons pediatrician referred him at 15 months when we noticed he had no words and after he got evaluated they approved him for speech therapy
@emmy0628, they recommended OT for sensory? I just wanna say that sensory issues alone don’t qualify a child for OT. It’s a delay in fine motor skills that qualify them. I learned that at my sons OT eval. MY sons ABA in our state/city/county is different than the ABA services you might receive for your son because the company our therapist works for is the only company that does play based parent oriented therapy. But what she does with him is she comes, bag FULL of toys she sits on the floor with him and they play BUT she does lessons through the play so say he wants a toy from her bag he is almost always required to request the toy and make eye contact with her. She has a tea set and he wants it he has to at least try and say “tea set” or “open, please” and make eye contact. Certain days depending on his mood she just wants a noise out of him with the eye contact. Now I’ll give an example of a behavior she helped me get through, my son asked me for a banana so I gave him one, he ate some and set it on the floor and wanted to play with a toy. He was not allowed to play until he picked up his banana and put it on the table or gave it to one of us to put away. He rolled on the floor screaming and crying say no no nooo. She told me “don’t look at him or say anything to him and try not to even touch him because he’s attention seeking right now and doing anything to him gets him what he wants” at some point she sat down got her bag out with her marble run in it and asked my son if he wanted to play and he did but he needed to pick up his banana first and he did. So ABA is behavior therapy she helps build his fine and gross motor skills helps me with redirecting him and getting through his tantrums. But that’s probably not the ABA you will receive.
Its sensory processing disorder. Its when their brain Dont process sensory things right. Examples to my son socks n underwear hurt. He Dont like the sound of the water running from faucet. He won't eat certain texture food. Its when they can't process certain things. So their confused by it.
That’s why we were confused why she would recommend OT just because he was afraid of the headphones but she told us that other children have gotten OT for the same reason and it has helped them. My son has zero delay in fine motor skills or gross motor skills .. omg funny thing you mentioned the banana because my son has gotten into really loving bananas lately and he’ll ask for one but leave the peel on the floor! I’m going to try redirecting him to throw it away now. I’ll be sure to ask his case worker about the ABA therapy and see if we qualify for it.