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does hyper sensitive and hypo sensitive autism need separate environment for therapy?

stephtan

hi all, i'm an architecture student, and im doing therapy facility for autistic in my thesis, so im currently studying on autistic and i found that there are two kind of autistic, which effecting their senses, hypo and hyper. but in my country, there are no separate treatment for this. i'd like to know what is the best environment autistic should have.

thankyou :D

  • Oh i see, its good that you already understand your condition and know how you should react to it openheart :)

    Can i say that autistic shouldnt be stressed out? But i think many external  disturbance that might put autistic in stress...

  • stephtan said:

    thats interesting Smile

    thankyou, it helps me!

    what makes a successful therapy in your opinion? is it the environment, therapist, or anything else?

    there is no successful therapy only exposure and recovery techniques to contain the condition within individual resilience coping abilities and that also can flux depending on the day, nothing to with anything(that can be measured or identified), it is just the case and that is were you have to learn to accept the condition. It is a snake, the more you fight it, the more the condition strangles you.

    Autism for me is the like weather, no set controlling pattern, hence a predictable environment/people/situation keeps the weather calmer, whilst I deal with my autism.

     

  • stephtan said:
    what makes a successful therapy in your opinion? is it the environment, therapist, or anything else?

    Four things, imo:

    1. A suitable environment.

    2. A suitably trained therapist.

    3. A suitable therapy.

    4. A willing subject.

    (in no particular order)

  • thats interesting :)

    thankyou, it helps me!

    what makes a successful therapy in your opinion? is it the environment, therapist, or anything else?

  • thats interesting :)

    thankyou, it helps me!

    what makes a successful therapy in your opinion? is it the environment, therapist, or anything else?

  • Flexible surroundings, starting with a blank sensory area,, then add on senses. I like colour but dislike human sounds, noise, smells, touch and bright lights. So in a way I hyper-sensitive therefore seek,, hypo-area's. Silent, none moving, clean, colourful, open places. Hence, I like gardening. Can you make a garden in the house ?

    I think it would need to be specialist planning catered to the autistic client. You could have different rooms types in the building, which the autistic person chooses like a lab mouse experiment,, you could do it virtual computer to begin with.

     

  • There are not simply two types of autistic - hyper- and hypo-.

    One person on the autistic spectrum can be hyper-sensitive to, say, light, but also hypo-sensitive to sound.

    And so on.

    The ideal treatment environment, therefor, would need to be flexible and allow changes to be made to it to cater for all levels of sensitivity in all sensory modalities.

    Hope that helps.