The Sensory Basis of Learning and Cognition in Autism

In this session Dr. Richard O. Williams shares his life-long passion for autism research to give foundation to a discussion about sensory differences and their connection to memory, learning, and cognition for individuals on the autism spectrum.  In this discussion, Dr. Williams and Dr. Thurman present some new perspectives on the nature of sensory difference in autism and detail how these differences place many individuals with autism on an alternative developmental trajectory that leads to a life of seeing and experiencing the world differently.