Sensory Processing Disorder article - washpost today

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Consider that we have no idea who we are talking to and we don't know which posts you have posted before. So far everyone in this thread has been anonymous but at least one poster had been incredibly judgmental.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, every disorder is an attempt to collect things that seem alike under a category to try to understand it. Just because there's no "biomedical" test doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There are no blood markers for depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism . . . but those things clearly exist. That strikes me as such a stupid thing to say that its not worth even repeating. And this is a psychotherapist (with what kind of degree?) and not a medical doctor.

The problem with SPD isn;t that there's a collection of symptoms, its that the collection of symptoms are often the result of something else entirely.

As the NY Times article confirmed, parents simply don't have time (or don't make time) to implement strong routines during early childhood development.
That task is most offen delegated to uninformed babysitters or daycare workers. Parents prefer not to waste their "intelegence" on such menial labor.

"The New York Times confirmed . . ." The NYT is not a source of science, they can't confirm this sort of thing. Everything else you wrote is absurd. SAHM have kids with developmental disorders. Highly structured homes produce kids with developmental disorders. I mean, duh . . .

Are you missing the point on purpose? Read the article. See the research. Early childhood development is hard work.

I don't need to be lectured about how hard it is. I have two children with SN. I am a SAHM who has invested an enormous amount of time on my children. I doubt you would last a day in my circumstances. You really should consider whom you are judging, you are posting in the SN section.

If you don't care to engage, don't engage. How simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why should parents with kids with sensory issues be held to a "best possible" standard, when any other set of symptoms in the DSM like anxiety, cleptomania, ADHD etc don't require that??

ALL parents should hold themselves to their own personal best, as a parent. Only you know what that is for you. I know what that is for me.

[Anonymous]

I don't know anything about SPD but I was diagnosed with auditory processing issues as a child - if you say a sequence of something out loud, I can not process/receive the information in the order given. So, I'm a grown adult and if you spell a word out loud longer than 3 letters to me, I won't get it - just like a little kid, except I'm not getting not because I can't spell or read the word - I can - but the sequence of information gets jumbled and I just can't process it as an auditory input.

I never really met anyone else with the same diagnosis and I'm not sure if it's still around or considered valid, but I am the only grown, literate adult I know with the issue. I'm not faking and I have seen some of these kids who can not handle noise - they don't seem to be faking either. Whether it requires a formal diagnosis, I don't know. The label I was given never really helped me - no one believed it and none of my teachers were willing to accommodate it by writing words out, instead of spelling them out loud. I'm not sure what the point is of labeling a kid if that doesn't entitle them to some sort of accommodation or a treatment path.

[Anonymous]

The point is that someone on this thread doesn't know or care that every diagnosis in the DSM is a collection or symptoms. She keeps pointing everything back to parent failures or lack of doing their best. Nice try but it's not going to work!

As PP points out these sensory issues are real... Auditory in her case. Whether sensory integration therapy can help is what I don't know.

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Anonymous wrote:The point is that someone on this thread doesn't know or care that every diagnosis in the DSM is a collection or symptoms. She keeps pointing everything back to parent failures or lack of doing their best. Nice try but it's not going to work!

As PP points out these sensory issues are real... Auditory in her case. Whether sensory integration therapy can help is what I don't know.

Perhaps you didn't know, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) contains "standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders."

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Disorders, not illnesses.

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My DS has an ASD. It is a disorder. But his mental health is just fine.

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And what's your point, 19;17? Do you have one?

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Anonymous wrote:Disorders, not illnesses.

I don't know that there's a difference. In any case, it ain't healthy or good.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know anything about SPD but I was diagnosed with auditory processing issues as a child - if you say a sequence of something out loud, I can not process/receive the information in the order given. So, I'm a grown adult and if you spell a word out loud longer than 3 letters to me, I won't get it - just like a little kid, except I'm not getting not because I can't spell or read the word - I can - but the sequence of information gets jumbled and I just can't process it as an auditory input.

I never really met anyone else with the same diagnosis and I'm not sure if it's still around or considered valid, but I am the only grown, literate adult I know with the issue. I'm not faking and I have seen some of these kids who can not handle noise - they don't seem to be faking either. Whether it requires a formal diagnosis, I don't know. The label I was given never really helped me - no one believed it and none of my teachers were willing to accommodate it by writing words out, instead of spelling them out loud. I'm not sure what the point is of labeling a kid if that doesn't entitle them to some sort of accommodation or a treatment path.

Unfortunately, even if a diagnosis entitles a child to accomadation, it still isn't always helpful. After all, the world past public school is unlikely to provide any accomadations. When we are talking about sensory issues, it may be best to teach a child strategies to compensate for their differences, rather than asking the school to change for them. They will have to learn those strategies eventually if they want to be successful in work and relationships and life really, where there are no IEPs.

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Anonymous wrote:Disorders, not illnesses.

I don't know that there's a difference. In any case, it ain't healthy or good.

Um . . . is anyone saying its healthy or good to have a developmental disorder? What is your point?

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Anonymous wrote:My DS has an ASD. It is a disorder. But his mental health is just fine.

Calling these conditions a disorder or an illness, is irrelevant, except maybe for your insurance coverage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS has an ASD. It is a disorder. But his mental health is just fine.

If it's in the DSM, it's a "mental disorder," in which case, his mental health isn't so fine.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS has an ASD. It is a disorder. But his mental health is just fine.

If it's in the DSM, it's a "mental disorder," in which case, his mental health isn't so fine.

You're being really thick about this. I don;t know why. if you are nearsighted, your vision is disordered. But your eye isn't diseased, you can have a perfectly healthy, but nearsighted, eye. If you have Downs Syndrome, you have a developmental disorder but you are not mentally ill unless you ALSO have mental illness.

Please explain to me why you believe that my DS who has an ASD is mentally ill, why this is so important for you to stake out?