Sensitivity to sound, light and touch affect neurodivergent people differently. Here are the strategies and tech products I use to help me function. John Carlsen has more than a decade of experience ...

Sound is all around us. People talking, dishes clinking, keys tapping, phones buzzing. For most of us, it’s just background ...

Sound sensitivity (or decreased sound tolerance) is a common and debilitating problem in children and adults on the autism spectrum. Sound sensitivity significantly impacts the daily lives of children ...

As more than a trillion cicadas emerge from underground this month, experts warn that people on the autism spectrum or who are sensitive to sound may find the insects’ noise overwhelming. The large co ...

When you step up to the mic, it's not just amplifying you; it's also picking up sound from the front, back, sides, or from multiple directions at once. This is what's known as a microphone's polar ...

In addition to providing compelling evidence of the perception of sound at the cell level, this study also challenges the traditional concept of sound perception by living beings, which is that it is ...

Here’s my philosophy: if we break the silence, it must create more meaning than the silence itself. Otherwise, we're just ...