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Cognition
- Poor attention, highly distractible
- Preoccupation for specific activities, repetitive actions
- Difficulty with teamwork
- Poor memory
- Difficulty with complex cognitive tasks
- Sequencing
- Imitation
- Generalizing concepts
- Symbolism
- Reading comprehension
- Executive function
- Language delay, verbal skills
Sensory Stimuli
- Sensory-perceptual abilities
- Tactile defensiveness
- Hypersensitivity
- Hyposensitivity
- Postural stability without visual cues
Visual
- Seeing images as a whole
- Visual fascination with visual effects
- Hypersensitivity to bright lights
Auditory
- Decreased responsiveness to auditory stimuli, or
- Oversensitive to auditory stimuli
Vestibular
- Seeking or avoiding certain vestibular movements, e.g. swinging, spinning
Taste
- Food preferences
- Sensitivity to textures
- Craving specific foods
- Unusual smell preferences
Irregular sleeping pattern
- Quality
- Quantity
- Disturbances
Emotion
- Emotional regulation
- Emotional lability
- Emotion interpretation
Mental Health
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Loneliness
Socialization and Communication
- Flat affect
- Reading facial expressions
- Reading body language
- Interpreting voice intonation
- Minimizing aggressive behaviors
- Minimizing self-injurious behaviors
- Minimizing self-stimulatory behaviors
- Understanding dangerous situations
- Dating and relationships
- Public sexual behaviors
Activities
- Feeding/eating
- Brushing teeth
- Grooming
- Toileting
- Dressing
- Bathing
School
- Writing/handwriting
- Reading
- Cutting
- Communicating needs
- Arts and crafts
- School subjects
- Interacting with peers
Work and Career
- Preparing for a job
- Applying for a job
- Holding a job
- Soft skills
- Working with others
- Judgment
Play
- Playing with parents, family
- Playing with peers
Leisure
- Shared interests
- Videogame addiction
Health Management
- Medication management
- Going to appointments
Gross and Fine Motor skills
- Hypotonia
- Apraxia
- Toe-walking
- Clumsiness
- Poor coordination
- Hand-eye coordination
- Decreased speed
- Poor posture
- Poor balance
- Difficulty with motor imitation
- Abnormal gait pattern
- Ambiguous hand preference
Other Behaviors
- Pacing
- Spinning
- Running in circles
- Hand flapping
- Biting
- Hitting self
- Headbanging
- Other self-injurious behaviors