Thank you--I really appreciate all the comments I've received, and you've all provided new insights to my son's situation. Although the psychologists haven't been able to pinpoint what's going on with him, it's probably a combination of both things--the attention and the sensory...

Hi Saralee, sounds more like attentional problems to me. If you think of social skills in terms of a radar that tells you where the other ships are and what they are up to, children with autism have to build the radar, children with attentional problems have to learn to look at the radar, that's...