ASD affects individuals attention and the way they learn basic habits for everyday life.Studies of the brain have revealed an interesting pattern as to why this occurs. When a child with ASD is presented with two task and has to ignore the distracting task, while focusing on the first task, their brain activity reveals they do not shift their attention to the more important task because they cannot decide which of the two is the most important. (workcite 7) This is a huge problem, because with the individual not being able to put all their attention onto one task it will take them twice as long to complete the task than an individual without ASD. Their attention is also affected in a classroom due to the fact that when a teacher is writing
