Hi Jaffa,

I feel for you - my son is also 6 and I discovered this same thing, but with us it's stuff like midline crossing, catching and throwing, but the picking things up/tidying has also gone out the window... It's very hard for me to have checked a mental tickbox and be thinking of COURSE he can/does do that, he's been doing that since he was 3 or 4... and then realise when the report card comes home that somehow he can't do some of these things anymore. It makes me feel like I can't trust what I think I know about my son.

All I can say is hang in there.

RE fighting the sensory diet - could it not be that he's learnt his own coping mechanisms, and the sensory diet is hard for him because he can feel his brain/body trying to work in different ways than he's accustomed to, and it feels weird or "wrong" because it's not his normal way, so then he doesn't want to?

Any chance you can enrol him in gymnastics or karate? Or any organised/disciplined sport, really. They get a lot of sensory gross motor diet things through these, and because you're not driving it and he's out of the usual environment, you might find he's more willing to try.

re bathroom routine - I don't know if it might help to put a laminated routine up above the sink and give him stickers to "check" each item off the list - so something like:
1. pump soap from dispenser
2. wet hands, scrub
3. rinse hands
4. close tap
5. dry hands
6. replace towel

Having the visual reminder might help him, we had to do this at the beginning of the school year to help him get through the morning routine.

All the best!