Hello,
This is my first time on an SPD forum. I am 28 years old and writing regarding my son who is 2 years and 3 months. He was born at 31 weeks and everything has been a struggle, from day one. Only now that I have another child (a 34 weeker, who is 8 months now) that i really understand HOW hard it was with my first! I suppose because I knew how lucky I was to have him, I managed.

We have recently had him assessed by an Occupational Therapist. Now we are in Australia (if that makes a difference) and the waiting list for this to be done publicly was over 12 months. So we have paid for a private assessment. We see his private paediatrician (the Paed who has cared for him since he was born) in 2 months. I would like to share snipets of the OT report and see if you believe my son has SPD. The OT won't diagnose, it is up to the Paed, but she has said he definitely had "sensory processing difficulties".

Here are the highlighted comments:
-.....processes all types of sensory information in a different manner to his peers, which impacts on his self-care skills such as feeding, social participation and attention to learning tasks
-.... has difficulty with planning and ideation which impacts on his ability to cope with changes in routine, transitions and unstructured time
-....play skills are impacted on by difficulties with sensory processing, planning and ideation and delayed communication
-....difficulty using toys appropriately in structured or pretend play when left to use these toys independently
-...experiences issues with proprioception
-....displays visual and auditory sensitiviy
-difficulty with visual and auditory filtering
-light touch (tactile) sensitivity
-fight/flight/fright stress response
-low registration of movement (vestibular) stimuli

Very interested in what your thoughts are, if you want a list of behaviours that we gave to the OT I am happy to share but it is quite lengthy so I didn't want to bombard you!

I am also hunting for some good books to read, to understand SPD myself a lot better, so I can explain it to others, and also some books to help me, help my son.

Thank you so much!