Hi, I am the mother of a beautiful 4 year old boy with SPD who also has a severe language delay/disorder. My son has been diagnosed with some characteristics of a sensory modulation disorder and a sensory-based postural disorder. We have been attending speech therapy for approx 20 months now with not a great deal of success and have recently started OT once per week. While I am reading books and researching information to help my son, I am still in the early stages of trying to find out his triggers. My greatest concern for him is his limited language, which makes it harder to help him. His expressive is better than his receptive, but still poor.

I have taken him to so may paeds who keep telling me he is a round peg who doesn't fit in a square hole. They also say he is ADD/ADHD. I ask how I can be sure it is ADD/ADHD and not just SPD and they don't know. They don't really seem to know anything about SPD. He also doesn't make eye contact, but has been ruled out for Autism at this stage.

I am so relieved to have found this website and know that we are not alone in this. Has anyone else had similar problems with language delay and can they be overcome?