If you can, tear open the walls and put in more insulation. If not, then there are kinds of carpets you can put on walls. Make sure the room has lots of soft things in it, like cushy furniture, curtains rather than blinds, lots of stuffed animals, etc.

Oh yes, and don’t use fluorescent lights. Autistics can often hear the buzzing from the lights, and it tends to bother them.

You know, that is an interesting question. I would have to say if you don’t have the materials needed for opening up the walls to put things into- (I am being very serious now) then hiring a engineer may be the way to go. An engineer may be able to offer you some way to help your child with the sensory sensativity (not just noise). The only down side to this is the obvious-the money!

I love the pillow and soft material idea!

I believe that I have Aspergers Syndrome and I just recently heard about it (learned about it) when I was working in the mental health feild. I am still doing research on Autism and how it affects adults since most everything is on children.

I found that if I have a fan on at night-it helps me sleep-however-if any noise is made other than the fan or music, I can’t sleep. Even if it is just a few papers rattling, I must stop it. Can your child handle soft classical music? Since each person is different-that had to be asked. Your son or daughter may benefit from soft music in his/her room. Only you know your child best!

I also wanted to apologize for the first person that said that nasty comment to you. Scotto or whoever that was has no knowledge of what Autism (or an ASD) is and how it impairs the lives of those that have it. He should do some research before making those comments.

All the suggestion given are great and good to work towards but let me give you a quick, short-term solution that may help and is fairly cheap.

Get some foam ear plugs or get the head set kind. The higher the decimal protection the better ($3-15 bucks max). Then get a sound machine that plays relaxing sounds, a cd player with a continuous play and some nature sounds or a simple fan may work just as well ($5-40 max). Also when the child sleeps get some squishy pillows so they can be put over the ears as well. Soft blanket will work as well.

Hope this helps

R

It wasn’t clear if you are the one who is autistic or if you are the parent of an autistic child. Either way, you are certainly on track with your concerns. If you are the parent, I would caution you that it is important for safety reasons that you do not cut off all ability to hear what is going on outside of your own room.

If you are the child, have you spoken with your parents about it? Non-autistic people often don’t think about how terribly sensitive you can be to sound, so you may need to speak up on your own behalf. I am not autistic, but I am sound-sensitive, and I’ve found most people just don’t get it. Perhaps your parents will have some good ideas about what might help quiet things for you. There are some good ideas in some of the other messages to you. Perhaps some of them would work–but leave any tearing of walls to your parent.

And do ignore Scott-o, or whatever his name is. Perhaps he suffers from the self-inflicted disability known as stupidity. There are no known coping skills or therapy for that.

I am assumming that the cost involved will be a factor. One thing that comes to mind, is covering the walls with a soft, sound absorbing material. One could staple quilt batting directly to the walls and ceiling, then staple a ‘quiet’ fabric (no loud prints, soft solid color) to the walls and ceiling as well. Yes, this would be labor intensive, but would be cheaper than adding additional insulation. You may even wish to cover the windows with plywood from the inside, and cover them with the quilt batting and fabric also. Be sure and leave at least one window open as an emergency exit. I would also cover the exposed staples with wide ribbon applied with hot glue.

Use accoustic tiling on the walls. Go to a bandhall at a school and see how they do it. I just wear earplugs. Sounds make me really nervous. I am very sensitive to light and sound and my son is aspergers so it kinda makes me wonder if I have a bit as well, I just really like my alone time.

sounds like ur the autistic one lol