Responses Relating to Category 2, Theme 1: Teachers who Understood and Accommodated Sensory Sensitivities (Adult Participants) Age 18-24 (n=5) 25-34 (n=5) 35-44 (n=9) 45-54 (n=2) 55-64 (n=3) 0 0 1 (11%) 0 1 (33%) Location Australia United United Canada Europe (n=7) States of Kingdom (n=3) (n=3) America (n=3) (n=8) 1 (14%) 1 (13%) `0 0 0 A parent participant noted that it helped her/his daughter when teachers allowed her to listen to music through headphones while working to assist her concentration. Another parent explained that her/his daughter cannot tolerate the beach due to her sensory sensitivities, and that this issue was accommodated on a school camp by ensuring she did not have to participate in any activities on the sand. An adult participant provided the following example of how her sensory sensitivities were accommodated: One of the few teachers that was nice to me would let me sit in his room and be alone in the quiet to calm down…one teacher allowed me to draw in his classroom during lunch time, I didn’t like the bustle and noise of the lunch room (Adult Participant 23, Question 2). Although in the following example, no specific accommodations were made for the female student with AS, an adult participant expressed her gratitude to her former teachers for the classroom environments she experienced: would firstly “I thank them for providing me with a quiet, mostly distraction-free environment in which to learn” (Adult Participant 7, Question 7).
Responses Relating to Category 2, Theme 1: Teachers who Understood and Accommodated Sensory Sensitivities (Adult Participants) Age 18-24 (n=5) 25-34 (n=5) 35-44 (n=9) 45-54 (n=2) 55-64 (n=3) 0 0 1 (11%) 0 1 (33%) Location Australia (n=7) United States of America (n=8) United Kingdom (n=3) Canada (n=3) Europe (n=3) 1 (14%) 1 (13%) `0 0 0 A parent participant noted that it helped her/his daughter when teachers allowed her to listen to music through headphones while working to assist her concentration. Another parent explained that her/his daughter cannot tolerate the beach due to her sensory sensitivities, and that this issue was accommodated on a school camp by ensuring she did not have to participate in any activities on the sand. An adult participant provided the following example of how her sensory sensitivities were accommodated: One of the few teachers that was nice to me would let me sit in his room and be alone in the quiet to calm down…one teacher allowed me to draw in his classroom during lunch time, I didn’t like the bustle and noise of the lunch room (Adult Participant 23, Question 2). Although in the following example, no specific accommodations were made for the female student with AS, an adult participant expressed her gratitude to her former teachers for the classroom environments she experienced: “I would firstly thank them for providing me with a quiet, mostly distraction-free environment in which to learn” (Adult Participant 7, Question 7).
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