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[quote=Anonymous]As the parent of a kid with extreme anxiety, adhd, and learning differences, I say that step one is to find a good therapist who specializes with anxiety. This therapist can help you support your child and help your child develop strategies to deal with stress. The therapist can also at least give you some sense of the big picture and recommend further testing.

OP, I really think it is unlikely that giving your child the book or a particular vocabulary is making it worse. Most likely, the anxiety is getting worse on its own and your child is not able to process whatever help she could get from the book... or maybe at worse the book is adding a bit to the confusion.

I agree with others that 3rd grade is a very standard time for issues, which have always been there but not apparent because there was no real context in which they would be obvious, to appear.

I wish when OTs "diagnose" four-year-olds with SPD they would make it 100 percent clear that SPD is not a diagnosis in itself but (pretty much always/have yet to meet one kid in which this is not true) rather a symptom within an actual real diagnosis, which probably won't be clear until later. They should do a better job of preparing parents.

In our case, our two years of OT were an utter waste if time. Therapy with a psychologist, though, not only helped with the anxiety but made all the sensory issues go away.[/quote]

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