| Notices every tiny change in the environment | |
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| Resists any change (all senses) | |
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| Doesn’t recognise a familiar environment if approached from a different direction | |
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| Is easily distracted by other visual stimuli in the environment (movement, objects, a piece of fluff, etc. | |
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| Ritualistic behaviour | |
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| Keeps ‘seeing’ a visual stimulus after it’s gone | |
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| Resists any change | |
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| Selects for attention minor aspects of objects in the environment instead of the whole thing (e.g., a wheel rather than a whole toy car) | |
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| Gets lost easily | |
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| Doesn’t recognise people in unfamiliar clothes | |
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| Fears heights, stairs, escalators | |
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| Hesitates going up or down steps | |
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| Difficulty judging spatial relationships in the environment; bumps into people, objects | |
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| Appears startled when approached suddenly | |
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| Compulsive repetitive hand, head or body movement that fluctuates between near and far | |
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| Hits/rubs eyes when distressed (+hyper-, fragmentation, etc.) | |
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| Response to visual stimuli is delayed (e.g., fails to close eyes when the light is switched on) | |
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| Any experiences are perceived as new and unfamiliar, regardless of the number of times they have experienced the same thing (across all sensory modalities) | |
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| Constantly looks at minute particles, picks up smallest pieces of fluff | |
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| Dislikes bright lights | |
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| Is frightened by sharp lashes of light, lightning, etc. | |
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| Looks down most of the time | |
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| Covers, closes or squints eyes at bright light | |
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| Is attracted to lights | |
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| Looks intensely at objects and people | |
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| Moves/flicks/waves fingers or objects in front of eyes | |
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| Is fascinated with reflections, bright coloured objects | |
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| Runs a hand around the edge of an object | |
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| Perimeter hugging | |
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| Squints or closes eyes in bright lights | |
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| Gets easily frustrated/tired under fluorescent lights | |
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| Gets frustrated with certain colours | |
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| Is fascinated with coloured and shining objects | |
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| May respond differently (pleasure – indifference – stress) to the same visual stimuli (lights, colours, visual patterns, etc.) | |
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| Sudden outbursts of self-abuse/meltdowns or withdrawal in response to visual stimuli | |
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| Tires very easily, especially when in bright places | |
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| Appears to be a mindless follower | |
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| Surprises with knowing ‘unknown’ information (+auditory) | |
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| Becomes disoriented in bright places | |
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| Doesn’t notice when people come into the room | |
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| Sometimes doesn’t react to visual stimuli | |
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| Feels/acts blind | |
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| When looking at something, doesn’t seem to hear/feel being touched/smell, or to know the position of the body in space/what body is doing | |
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| Avoids direct eye contact | |
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| Smells, licks, touches or taps objects to recognise them | |
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| Seems to be absorbed (merged) with lights, colours, patterns | |
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| Seems to know what other people (who are not present) are doing | |
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| Covers/rubs/blinks, etc. eyes in response to a sound/touch/smell/taste/movement | |
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| Complains about (is frustrated with) the ‘wrong’ colours of letters/numbers, etc. on coloured blocks, etc. | |
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| Displays a good visual memory; remembers routes and places | |
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| Memorises enormous amounts of information at a glance | |
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| Reactions are triggered by lights, colours, patterns | |
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| Easily solves jigsaw puzzles | |
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| Learns nouns first | |
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| Has difficulties with adverbs and prepositions | |
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| Often poor at mathematics | |
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| Is a good synthesiser | |
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| Provides solutions but is unable to explain how they have been reached | |
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| Develops own methods of problem-solving | |
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