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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know anything about SPD but I was diagnosed with auditory processing issues as a child - if you say a sequence of something out loud, I can not process/receive the information in the order given. So, I'm a grown adult and if you spell a word out loud longer than 3 letters to me, I won't get it - just like a little kid, except I'm not getting not because I can't spell or read the word - I can - but the sequence of information gets jumbled and I just can't process it as an auditory input.

I never really met anyone else with the same diagnosis and I'm not sure if it's still around or considered valid, but I am the only grown, literate adult I know with the issue. I'm not faking and I have seen some of these kids who can not handle noise - they don't seem to be faking either. Whether it requires a formal diagnosis, I don't know. The label I was given never really helped me - no one believed it and none of my teachers were willing to accommodate it by writing words out, instead of spelling them out loud. I'm not sure what the point is of labeling a kid if that doesn't entitle them to some sort of accommodation or a treatment path. [/quote]

Unfortunately, even if a diagnosis entitles a child to accomadation, it still isn't always helpful. After all, the world past public school is unlikely to provide any accomadations. When we are talking about sensory issues, it may be best to teach a child strategies to compensate for their differences, rather than asking the school to change for them. They will have to learn those strategies eventually if they want to be successful in work and relationships and life really, where there are no IEPs. [/quote]

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