Prevention of absenteeism and school failure in students with ASD: Improving the transition from primary to secondary school

Students with ASD may have sensory processing deficits, which, this can make them hypersensitive, that is, they have an exaggerated response to the demand of the environment or they are hyposensitive, which means that they lack reaction to the stimuli of the environment. environment. For example, the noise from a concert is likely to cause some children considerable discomfort while others are fascinated by the bright lights that routinely disturb the people around them.

To work on sensory integration dysfunction in the classroom, we must work with the sensory systems that we have: visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive (system that shows us the position of our body) and vestibular (related to movement, gravity and balance). In the following table are some strategies of how we can work these systems.