Sensory Disorder? TL:DR

synchrosally · November 2012

At a feeding workshop last night something clicked when they were talking about oral hypo sensitivity. The description fits my son to a T. He likes strong flavours like feta and goat cheese, craves sweet, stuffs his mouth so full when he eats he has to hold it in with his finger, drools excessively even though he's done teething, and he chews on everything: board books as a baby, his shirt every day, still. I mean he's the kid who would take his snack of grapes at the park and roll them in the sand before eating them!

It got me thinking. When my son was born, all the nurses asked if he was a forceps delivery because he had some nerve damage on the side of his face and cried lopsided. This nerve damage seems to have affected his speech and I'm beginning to think it's responsible for his eating issues as well.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm waiting for a follow up phone call from the SLP and behavioral therapist from the workshop. I'm trying to do a little research in the meantime. It doesn't appear to be SPD because if the cause is what I think it is, it's not processing that is the issue, it's the actual nerves.

Sorry for rambling, I'm just trying to resolve things in my head.

MandaPanda518 · November 2012

I don't have any experience with this, but I hope you/you're LO isable to get the help you're looking looking for.

synchrosally · November 2012

MandaPanda518:
I don't have any experience with this, but I hope you/you're LO isable to get the help you're looking looking for.

Thanks. We've been connected to a centre for development for speech for a while and are finally getting some of the other needed services. Next week it's sleep!

grr_aargh · November 2012

My son has sensory processing disorder and is hyposensitive in many things. Interestingly, he also had a droopy-ish face when he was born because of his swift delivery but nobody has ever said anything to us about nerve damage. His birth was eventful, to say the least, with cord compression issues and serious heart rate drops - I think any connection between his sensory modulation disorder and his birth are more related to the overall birth-trauma if related at all.

I hope you can get at the root of what's up - I will say we had excellent luck with OT therapy with my son. . .

synchrosally · November 2012

grr_aargh:
My son has sensory processing disorder and is hyposensitive in many things. Interestingly, he also had a droopy-ish face when he was born because of his swift delivery but nobody has ever said anything to us about nerve damage. His birth was eventful, to say the least, with cord compression issues and serious heart rate drops - I think any connection between his sensory modulation disorder and his birth are more related to the overall birth-trauma if related at all.
I hope you can get at the root of what's up - I will say we had excellent luck with OT therapy with my son. . .

I'm sorry your poor kiddo had a rough start. My delivery was fairly uneventful, I think it was the 6 weeks prior to delivery stuck in a posterior position engaged in my pelvis that likely caused the damage. He looked a little like Jean Cretian when he cried.

I hope OT will be helpful for him. Our SLP has been amazing and DS has made amazing progress.