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Making Sense of Autism

St. Louis Center's snoezelen room

by Shelley Daily

posted 11/25/2008

A spinning disco ball dapples light on the walls of a darkened room. Travis, a fifteen-year-old with autism, walks toward an illuminated bubble tower. As the tube changes colors, Travis presses his face against it and glides his hands up and down the tube, transfixed by the moving bubbles. A few moments later, Travis darts to another corner of the room and lies

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