http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=5033594&page=1

Kristina Chew said on her blog (http://www.autismvox.com) that she
didn't particularly care for them showing Charley with his hands over
his ears. She said she knows he does that to filter things out and
thus better understand what is going on around him, but to everyone
else he may look like the stereotypical withdrawn child.

~Marcie