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If your LO has sensory issues--- a question
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So DS1 of course has MAJOR speech issues which we're seeing progress on but doubtful he'll make "mainstream" kindergarten next year. Despite all of the testing with Early Intervention and even the initial testing to get in to the school system for special education preschool--- they never picked up on his major sensory issues.
Luckily the therapists and teacher in his program did--and he's getting help--even officially got OT added to his IEP last month.
BUT DS1 was delayed from about 6 months on--- always a few months behind in his milestones, etc. Not what I would call a typical child. So now my question leans more towards DS2 who is 19 months old. So far he's met every "milestone" (and I use that term loosely)-- and is trying to say words although I think he may have "some" issues there---but I'm more concerned about sensory.
How young did you realize your LO had sensory issues and what were they?
I'm not sure what "normal" is since DS1 wasn't quite there at that stage. There's just lots of little things that make me think "this just doesn't seem right....." but then again, dealing with so many issues I think makes one look at things differently anyways.
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Re: If your LO has sensory issues--- a question
DS is sensory avoidant (is that the right terminology?). By 19 months, it seemed like he was scared of the world. Things that caused extreme meltdowns: Loud noises, large groups of people. Toys that moved or played music. All playground equipment. Being dirty. Being wet. Certain textures of food. Clothing with seams that weren't flat. Clothing that wasn't soft. Turtlenecks. Strong smells. Strong tastes. Transitioning from pants to shorts and long sleeves to short sleeves or vice versa. Anything that could possibly cause static shock. His personal space had a radius of about 5 feet. Anyone other than DH and I getting within that space caused a meltdown.
He met every milestone on time or early.
ETA: Thinking back on it, he was pretty much always like that, but there was a pretty huge spike in what we called "sensitive days" that started at 18 months. At birth, he was extremely easily overstimulated, and he hit stranger anxiety at 3 months and kept it until 3. He is 4.5 now and has mostly grown out of (or we've worked through) a lot of the list above. He still has days or weeks when it all comes back though.
My DS is also 19 months old. I didn't realize he was different because of his sensory issues until we started speech therapy 6 weeks ago and the SLP started pointing things out. I then did some research and found a list of some common symptoms of sensory processing disorder, specifically proprioceptive and out of a list of 19 items my son had over half.
Now that I have done the research and talked to therapists it's very obvious that he is sensory seeking and it has cause some other significant development delays.
I don't know if I would have ever seen it before because he is my first and I have no child to compare him to. I just thought he was being a quirky toddler. Let me know if you want to know his specific sensory seeking behavior but every child is different!
I hope that helps!
With #1, I literally had no idea he had sensory issues since I had no idea what they were. I just thought he was quirky and some kids have quirks. We found out at 22 months when my SLP suggested we get him evaluated since she had some concerns. His sensory issues really peaked shortly after he turned 2 and it was good I had some knowledge of what we were dealing with beforehand.
With #2 I knew by 18 months. I was more aware what was typical/atypical though. Her issues are very pronounced--she stims, has oral aversions with food, still mouths everything, etc. Looking back at my son at 18 months things weren't severe as they eventually got.
We've seen signs from birth, but I didn't really start putting it together until about 12 months, and we received a diagnosis at 19 months.
As a newborn, he couldn't latch but he took a bottle just fine. He met physical milestones very early (holding up head at 45 degrees by 2 weeks, rolling over at 5 weeks, sitting up by 3 months) because he was very rigid. He didn't like to be held.
As a toddler, his issues are more pronounced.
- He is sensory seeking in terms of movement. He never sits still. Ever. He is like most typical toddlers when they've had lots of sugar and are overtired and hyped up from a holiday or special occasion, but all.the.time. He continues to meet milestones early: walking at 8 months, climbing at 10 months, up and down stairs at 14 months, jumping at 15 months.
- He isn't very receptive to pain. He's had 2 concussions and a sprained ankle with minimal tears. Normal bumps, bruises, scratches, and cuts are received with little to no reaction.
- He seeks oral input. Everything goes in the mouth. He overstuffs and chokes frequently when eating.
- He continues to dislike being held or touched.
- He doesn't like wearing hats, socks, or shoes but will tolerate them at times. He will not wear gloves and acts like he is in pain when anything touches his hands when he is not in control of it. He will wash his own hands, but cringes, cries, and pulls away when we try to do it.
DS 09/2008
I adopted my son at around 4 months old and he was substance exposed. I was having real issues with his sleep and so I had early intervention come out. Found out he prob had some sensory stuff regarding sleep but that was the only thing. He was always ahead of milestones except speech. He still wasn't really speaking at 18 months. Verbal yes but not "words" so I pushed for speech eval which led to ot eval and the first 10 minutes of the eval she said he is a sensory kiddo. So I learned all about that. He's been in OT 6 months and about to discharge out of it and is receiving ST now. I have seen a huge difference since OT and he is talking now. It's great.