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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter (almost 7) was 'diagnosed' SPD around age 4, when it was evident to her pre-k teacher that how she handled her body in relation to the world, other people, etc, was not quite right.  She DID have core-strength issues, and did (does?) have sensory issues.  My wife and I are convinced she is borderline symptoms for Aspbergers (is that term still even used?) but testing done at several locations has not called it that, or anything.  I keep making the point, its a "SPECTRUM" and just-off-the-spectrum in one direction is a whole bunch of people who dont cross the line but are right up on it.  She has some anxieties but they are not interfering with her life, essentially.

Anyway, she had a 504 plan in school for "executive functioning" and now has an IEP for speech.  And is doing better.  But sometimes, only at home I think, she seems in her own world.  Especially when I ask her to do something.  part of that might just be being a kid.

The crux of all this...she had open heart surgery at 7 months old.  So the core-strength OT stuff was very real and very helpful.  And there is this constellation of squishy sensory symptoms around pediatric heart patients that has not been fully explored and documented, but it is definitely there.

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