Special Education Behavior Support Strategies for Coping with Sensitivity to Smells

Many children with autism spectrum disorders, or other special needs, experience strong negative reactions to smells that surround them. This can happen in restaurants and school cafeterias. Consequently, children may react with acting out behaviors when faced with sensory sensations that are adverse to them, and/or they may just refuse to enter these triggering settings.
A number of special education behavior support strategies may help such children with special needs cope and handle these settings. Behaviors stories, mini-schedules, environmental and choice control, and sensory tools used together may decrease the negative sensations and connotations these settings have for children with autism or special needs.
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