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Sensory differences

Senses

Sound, light, touch, smell, and busy places can take more effort. The useful response is often to change the place.Sound, light, touch, smell, and busy places can be hard. Change the place when you can.

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A room can be painful or exhausting before anyone has “misbehaved”. If you can turn the load down, do that before you ask for coping.

A room can hurt or tire someone out. Change the room before you ask them to cope.

The same person may want more of one sense and less of another. Headphones are not a treatment. They are a tool for a loud place.

Someone may want more of one sense and less of another. Headphones are a tool for noise, not a treatment.

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