24 Mag Open spaces for Autism
Read the new article by Elena Bellini (DU IT) about open spaces for autism in “The hitch hiker’s guide to Mars (and back). Autism Awareness. A magazine for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and their friends and family by people with autism”:
A lot of research has shown the influence of the environment on people and their well-being. People with ASD are particularly sensitive to the environment, because they can present hyper-sensitivity to the context, or sometimes they can perceive and process the sensations in a different way. For this reason, the working environment could represent a big challenge. It is often an overstimulating, confusing and stressful environment, affecting the attention span and the productivity the presence of continuous background noise, a lot of people talking simultaneously or loudly, strong or vibrating lights, big open spaces without organisation, etc. …read more