Sensory realities -- Filtering model -- Side-notes: a few questions to ask -- Gestalt perception -- Sensory perceptual development -- Hidden agenda of language -- Non-verbal communication -- Sensory hypersensitivities -- Side-notes: before we go further -- Extrasensory realities in autism (with possible explanations)
Summary
In this intelligent and incisive book, Olga Bogdashina explores old and new theories of sensory perception and communication in autism. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and quantum mechanics, she looks at how the nature of the senses inform an individual's view of the world, and how language both reflects and constructs that view. Examining the 'whys' and 'hows' of the senses, and the role of language, Olga Bogdashina challenges common perceptions of what it means to be 'normal' and 'abnormal'. In doing so she shows that autism can help to illuminate o
