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[quote=Anonymous]The thing about SPD or sensory issues or whatever you want to call it is this. It's a set of symptoms, abnormal reactions to normal things (touch, sound, etc.). It's affecting some kids' lives negatively -- and they don't fit into the other diagnostic boxes (yet, maybe).

It seems to me this is pretty much like other DSM diagnoses. Check out this quote and article from when the DSM V came out:

"Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg, of New London, Conn., has written about the DSM for more than a decade and says the DSM disorders are "simply collections of symptoms that some experts agree constitute mental illnesses. There's not a single diagnosis in DSM that lives up to the standards of medical diseases.

"If I as a therapist tell you (that) you have a mental disorder, it's not the same thing as my telling you you have diabetes or cancer because diabetes and cancer are diseases that can be confirmed through biochemical findings. They meet the requirements for a disease in the way we generally think of a disease. There is not a single disorder in DSM-5 or any DSM that does that," says Greenberg, author of The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, out earlier this month.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/12/dsm-psychiatry-mental-disorders/2150819/

So I think SPD is like any other diagnosis in the DSM in that sense - a collection of symptoms. As a PP said, lots of things weren't in the DSM -- until they were.

But what I am NOT sure about is: what's the appropriate treatment...is this stuff in the Out of Sync Child Has Fun worthwhile? What works?? That's important and I just don't know the answer to that. [/quote]

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