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Sensory impairments
Sensory impairments is a symptom in which a person has auditory (hearing), visual (seeing), tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), or oral (taste) sensory problems. He has trouble interpreting the information gained from the various senses, and/or the senses are sending incorrect information to his brain.
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