Sensory Processing Disorder article - washpost today
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Anonymous
| Can someone please post the link? Thanks. |
Anonymous
| Anyway, what do you think about the article? My DC is in OT for low tone and sensory issues...they didn't call it SPD. |
Anonymous
| I don't know anything - just a parent who has gotten comfortable with the Aspergers/HFA diagnosis that encompasses this sort of stuff. And one of the things you discover in that process is that a lot of us have bits and pieces of it including extreme sensory sensitivity. As the joke goes, autism is contagious--you catch it from your kids. On reflection my wife has that part, I have other parts, and our DS has enough of the pieces to be diagnosable. I'd just urge anyone to read the SPD and HFA literature together with an open mind. Whether this is one spectrum or two or six, it's complex and there are plenty of wonderful and brilliant kids who you could easily put in one bucket or another without changing anything about how wonderful and brilliant they are. |
Anonymous
| Why was the link removed? |
Anonymous
| Very one sided. It wasn;t abut the controversy at all, it was pumping up SPD. Irresponsible. |
Anonymous
No one has yet posted the link. -OP |
Anonymous
| No, I posted the link and now it's gone. |
Anonymous
Wow. How strange. I wonder what happened to it. Maybe try again? Thank you. |
Anonymous
I'm pretty sure you reported it since my post with the link also directed you to google it yourself and two people responded to that. So you should probably just do that. |
Anonymous
I didn't report anything on this thread. So you're saying several posts were deleted? -OP |
Anonymous
Yes. |
Anonymous
| For my family, SPD was not a helpful diagnosis. When we first became concerned with my child's social interactions, at age 4, we went to an OT because we didn't know any better and I had friends with similar concerns who had gone to an OT. Surprise, surprise, we got an SPD diagnosis even though sensory problems were not even close to leading my list of concerns. Nine months of OT later, we were still not any closer to overcoming the social problems. Several months after that, the school pushed us to go to a developmental pediatrician, where we got an autism diagnosis. We started appropriate therapy (not OT), and DC is thriving. I wish the OT had recommended a developmental pediatrician or we had known better from the beginning. |
Anonymous
| The article was reasonably balanced. At least it was made clear that SPD is NOT a service-warranting diagnosis from public schools, that pediatricians do not accept it as legit, that OTs are diagnosing and then charging to treat it, and that it is NOT in the DSM V. |
Anonymous
| It also said that sensory issues mean something is going on. It's a constellation of symptoms that should not be ignored. |
Anonymous
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Since an OT is not a doctor, they shouldn't be diagnosing anything. How convenient that the "disorder" they diagnose is treated only by them.
Rest assured though, once a pharmaceutical company claims they have a drug to treat SPD, it will then gladly be accepted by medicine and included in the next DSM. |