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Autism and Autism-Like Disorders Autism Blog Archives Autism at MislabeledChild.com Today, "Autism" means many different things to different people. The core impairments in autism involve social empathy, motor "mirroring", and communication, but individuals with autism also often have brain-based difficulties in visual and / or auditory processing, attention, and integrative activities that require the coordination of large brain networks. It's becoming increasingly clear that the diagnostic criteria need to be clarified, though, with more attention to considering "autism look-alikes" or confounding primary sensory or perceptual disorders. Several studies have now found significant  abnormalities in auditory and language perception in the brain (see above). Also visual processing problems can complicate social interactions (right). Some individuals may have a hard time seeing a whole 'picture' of a face at one time, while problems with the emotional reading of faces hampers others. Children or adults with autism may have large shifts in sensory or motor maps, which would make it difficult to plan motor movements, respond easily to change, or reliably sense the environment. 
Mapping Visual Scanning In Autism 
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