New research shows that children with autism are better at combining information about moving objects than their peers, which may explain why they experience sensory overload.
The study, by the Centre for Research in Autism and Education at the UCL Institute of Education, asked 33 children with autism and 33 typical children aged six to 13 to judge the average direction of a set of dots on a computer screen. The children with autism were better at doing this when the dots moved in different directions. However, they did not show the same enhancement when they had to ignore dots moving in random directions. These results suggest that children with autism can combine dynamic information well but may not always know what information to combine and what information to ignore. Visit: http://crae.ioe.ac.uk/
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