Hello everyone!

1. What brings you here? One of my dear friends gave me this link. I have been looking for support groups for me in dealling with my son's differences.
2. What is your relations to someone with SPD? Do you have it? a child of yours? Do you treat SPD kids as a professional? Oh boy, oh boy! I do work with a couple of SPD kids as a middle school teacher. That's the easy part. My DS8 is diagnosed PDD-NOS, SPD, ADHD, and dysgraphic.
3. Share a little of your journey if you'd like. We started at 3 with speech and OT. DS has never liked certain food because of texture. He also hates tags on clothes and grass and has since he was a baby. We treat most things with behavioral modification and therapy. We just started Focalin XR for the ADHD 2 months ago. My personal journey has had its ups and downs. There are times (even now with all I have learned) that I wonder what I could have done differently. I am an avid reader and am always fighting to get more help for him. I work in the same district that he attends. Usually that is good as I have made friends with all of his teachers except for this yearl. And that's a whole 'nother story!
4. Is there any immediate help you need? Nothing immediate. I am looking for people that have run into the same things I am dealing with. I have many friends who try to understand, but very few do. Any or families still don't get that we aren't going to find a cure, we just have to teach DS how to live a full life with his differences.
5. SPD doesn't run your life! What are you or your child's gifts? Interests? DS is a math whiz! Last year I taught middle school math and he was able to do the same work they were doing in 2nd grade! DS also has a very dry sense of humor already and he loves people. He is also great with computers. Often he can figure things out that I can't. Right now his obsession is Bakuban.
6. What do you like to do in your spare time? Any hobbies or interests?
I do try to make some time for myself late at night by reading. I read just about everything. I also enjoy scrapbooking and most sports (watching not playing).

I look forward to meeting and getting to know all of you.

Sheri