LoJacCoMom
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Mom of 18 month old newly diagnosed SPD
My son Collin has always been different from my older 2 kids that are now 4 and 3. He was a 32 week old preemie and lived in the hospital his first 2 weeks. He came home and for the next 12 months he was a healthy happy baby!
Just after his first birthday, Collin shut down. He was talking (momma, dada, bye bye) he was waving bye bye and never a care in the world. All of a sudden things just started to bother him. A lot of things. He is in therapy now with a PT,OT,and ST. In my opinion this is a lot for a little guy. He doesn't know how to act or what to do. He scared and hes non verbal so he cant tell me how he feels.
At first i thought the diagnoses was going to be Autism. Which at the moment I'm not sure it wont be. But after 2 visits with the OT she has said SPD. Im frightened and don't know what to expect. How is this going to affect my son, our lives, our relationship? I have read many articles and have a decent grasp on what it is what if anyone has any tips, advice, comments, or anything, i would really appreciate it.
-Becca
(Logan, Jacalyn,& Collin's Mom!)
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01-24-2012, 02:26 AM |
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beck7422
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RE: Mom of 18 month old newly diagnosed SPD
Some babies don't speak much until they can speak in whole sentences.
Try to do things that relax people with SPD. If he seems more engaged and happy (even if he isn't speaking) then you will know SPD is the problem and just need to make some minor life adjustments for that.
SPD if treated early and the child knows how to self maintain will mostly just be an annoyance at times for them, but they will be otherwise normal. If SPD isn't treated or maintained sensitivity levels can keep growing pushing past the annoyance level into an actual disability level. Anger management problems, crying for no known reason, and/or incapability of doing anything are examples of negative side effects of disability level SPD. They sometimes get diagnosed as other problems, but the cause is their brain overreacting to outside stimulous.
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01-24-2012, 10:52 PM |
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