(07-08-2012, 10:55 PM)Meg5 Wrote: Marci, thanks for your reply and for your honesty. I appreciate it. I never thought driving would be this much of a problem, but it kinda makes sense.

I think the saddest part of parenting a child with SPD is admitting the word "impossible" exists. The brutal reality is there are some things my child will never be able to do because his brain can not organize the necessary mental and physical tasks all at once.

Because of that, I constantly push him to use and gain the skills that he is capable of. Lately he's doing a lot of baking - an excellent activity for a kid who needs practice with executive planning skills: when you carefully follow the directions and do each task in the right order, you get a tasty result. We (OT and I) have had to admit my son will never learn to write cursive (2 years of trying) - so now I'm giving him creative writing projects to practice his typing skills.