Jason Wolff, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s special education program, recently was quoted in Spectrum for his research on sensory responsiveness in toddlers.

According to Spectrum, Wolff’s study found that “infants may cover their ears in response to ordinary conversation or shrink from being touched; they may also be slow to react to pain or changes in their environment. Their unusual reactions become more pronounced over the second year of life and tend to co-occur with repetitive behaviors.”

“Babies who develop autism have these differences from late infancy onward,” Wolff told the publication.

Read the full article, “Sensory responses in infancy may hint at autism.”