Trying not to be too vent-ish here but a little frustrated. My daughter has had her SPD diagnosis since she was 3, she is 5 now. She's very bright and verbal and does have some motor skill delays. She is so incredibly intense, insatiably sensory seeking, contantantly exhausted and hyper at the same time, needs constant 1:1 attention to direct her behavior, sleeps poorly, stuck on potty training and can't handle being in any sort of class setting with other children without a massive meltdown.

We've had a lot of success with biomedical stuff but with OT not so much. My daughter thinks it's really fun but we just don't see any improvement from it. Biomedical can't do everything I don't think though, so I've continued to try to persue OT in different ways.

Recently we paid a fair amount of have a new OT evaluation at a place that is more focused on SPD and the OT's are certified in that area. I think the evaluation is giving us a lot of valuable information about our daughter's motor deficits and her propoceptive issues and that's great but it's not what I really need. Our family is constantly exhausted and overwhelmed and we can't do things normal families do because of sensory stuff but yet they want to sit and work with her and how to hold a pencil. I know holding a pencil is important but at this point it feels a little like straightening the pictures in a burning house. Basically I'm just wondering, if an OT is not going to help us with the issues that are really effecting her and our family, who could?