Nicole M. Magaldi, PhD is an associate professor in The Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at William Paterson University where she teaches coursework and conducts research in the area of child language disorders and autism spectrum disorder. Her research is fueled by her many years as a clinical speech-language pathologist working with children with autism spectrum disorder.
How Can Sensory Deficits Impact Communication With ASD?
As we all learned in elementary school, there are five basic senses that we use to process the world around us; touch, hearing, vision, smell, and taste. Our sense organs (e.g., eyes, nose, etc.) receive information from the environment and relay that information to the brain for interpretation. Throughout the day, each of us processes