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This article explores the often unrecognised sensory disorders of autistic children. When the therapist is interested in and takes into account their sensory interests, these children feel more concerned, better understood, and the encounters with them are facilitated. Between hypersensibility and hyposensibility, they sometimes reach states of sensory saturation that make them avoid contact with others, which is particularly complex and unpredictable. They may try to discharge too much intensity or an excess ofsensory information that they can neither filter nor process. Operations of splitting enable them to calm down at the price of psychic dispersion and a difficulty in coordinating different sensations. Therapeutic support provides a regulation of relationships that diminishes the autistic modes of regulation, thereby favouring a spontaneous interest in relations with others and better coordination in bodily experience and space. The child opens himself to new explorations with his environment.