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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you all for the reply.  Fortunately, with the bottle, we realize he can drink 2x 3x what he would drink from a cup.  So we are going to buy a good scale and measure his progress.  However, we will still have to treat his SPD.  My wife is looking into going to STAR institute in Colorado and I've been looking into yourkidstable.com to figure out what to do.  The person who runs that website replied to our comment to try the sensory bins, so we are trying that right now.  But our son would only use his finger, not his whole hand.  So I am playing find the toy game where I bury it deep enough so he would have to dig deeper.

We've taken our son to the Kriegers for evaluation.  It was simply in a room with many "specialists and doctors" who observed him and after costing few grand just for that evaluation, we felt we didn't get anywhere.  We had planned to enroll him in their intense therapy sessions, but the therapists and doctor's feedback on Krieger's was negative.  In fact, the mother with the similar situation I had mentioned had gone to Kriegers as well, but she was not happy with them (we are trying to get her number from the doctor so we can get more feedback of the both places).

I had thought our situation was desperate, but hearing others with worse situation overcoming their obstacles gives me hope. 
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Unless KKI refused to help you, I'd at least try them. Some practitioners think their methods are too harsh (is that the problem of your doctor/therapist?), but it sounds like your kid is a relatively extreme case and could really use the help. [/quote]

+1 I heard a lot of negative things about KKI before taking my son - what I experienced was nothing like what others had described - they used a lot of positive reinforcement. It got tough sometimes when he refused, but changing behavior can be tough. Their program does, however, require parent buy-in & commitment. It can only be as successful as you are willing to follow through at home. We were gradually released from therapy, & the likely reason we were released rather quickly because I used their strategies very consistently once we were home. Otherwise, he would have regressed, & we would have been there longer. 6 years later, & his eating is almost "normal" - the few non-preferred foods/textures that remain are minor and do not interfere with life. No more planning around "what will he eat." I credit KKI fully to leading us there.[/quote]

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