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[quote=Anonymous]My child never had SPD as a diagnosis, but many of the symptoms mentioned are familiar.  Difficulty with loud noise, crowds of people and wanting to play with friends but having difficulty were all symptoms of auditory and language difficulties.  Lack of control of knowledge of body had more to do with dyspraxia/developmental coordination disorder and slow processing than an actual correctable muscular strength problem.  Many have mentioned ADD as the "true" diagnosis of a child previously categorized with SPD, but auditory processing or language processing difficulties or developmental coordination disorder aka dyspraxia can also cause some of these symptoms.

My child probably could have benefitted from working with an OT on skills that were difficult due to the dyspraxia but could have been repeated/practiced enough with the OT until they became part of muscle memory and automated brain function which would have been a way to get around the dyspraxia.  Eating with utensils and writing and drawing are examples of skills an OT could have improved with explicit instruction.  Instead the OT seemed to want to focus on general play even though she acknowledged that there was no muscular/OT problem.  She recommended 1 hour a week of some program that had absolutely no research to support it.

Our money was better spent on time per week with explicit handwriting instruction and speech/language therapy to help with the auditory processing and language issues.  (Although, in the end, nothing really ameliorates the sensitivity to noise.)[/quote]

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