| TABLE 1: Term Definitions of A/ASP Quadrants.
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| Sensory Sensitivity | “Represents behaviors in accordance with a low neurological threshold. Distractibility, difficulty screening stimuli, and discomfort with sensation characterize this quadrant.”
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| Sensation Avoiding | “Counteracting a low neurological threshold, sensation avoiding includes behaviors that limit exposure to stimuli.”
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| Low registration | “Low registration reflects responses in accordance with a high neurological threshold. This quadrant includes a disregard of or slow response to sensation.”
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| Sensation Seeking | “Sensation seeking is a counteractive response to high neurological threshold and encompasses pleasure derived from rich sensory environments and behaviors that create sensation.”
Brown, Tollefson, Dunn, Cromwell, & Filion, 2001, p. 76. |