Petitpierre, Geneviève Luisier, Anne-Claude Bensafi, Moustafa 2021 Atypical eating behaviors are common in autism. This article sheds light on the role of sensory processing on food acceptance and selectivity in autism. The role of the senses in eating behavior is described, suggesting that changes in liking to food sensory stimuli in autism occur and are linked to food neophobia. Interventions addressing sensory processes to improve eating behavior through familiarization are presented and discussed. Their results suggest that, in addition to other factors such as a social context, following a progression from unimodal to multimodal stimuli, the support of the child as an agent, and finally paying attention to the child's own rhythm, sensory familiarization may change food acceptance in autism. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/309414 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/309414/files/petitpierre_et_al_2021_eating.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.cofs.2021.04.015 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Current Opinion in Food Science. - 2021, vol. 41, p. 210-216 Autism spectrum disorder Eating Food selectivity Sensory processing info:eu-repo/classification/udc/376 Eating behavior in autism : senses as a window towards food acceptance http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501