Re: apraxia-auditory processing-(newly diagnosed) sensory issues-i have questions

February 9, 2008

Hi Kathunter

I found this site recently and it seems to be fairly accurate on the SI stuff.

http://www.childhoodanxietynetwork.org/htdocs/htm/sid.htm

Where did you go for the auditory processing dx,if you don't mind me asking.

Thanks

Sharon

kathoppy <kathoppy@...> wrote:

my son will be 7 in May. He has been diagnosed with apraxia and AP

for about a year now. He sees a private speech therapist 2x a week.

He has improved in leaps and bounds with his speech in the year's

time he has been seeing this private speech therapist. He also has

asthma, and dust mite allegies. He has always been my hyper,

energetic always on the go child. Everyone always knew he had adhd

because he was sooooo hyper. we put him on medicine about mid way

through kindergarten to help him focus. He has been on probably 4-5

meds in the last year to calm him down and to get him to focus in

school. Recently his speech therapist introduced us to the

Occupational therapist and they don't think he has adhd. He has

multiple sensory issues, which is very easily mis-diagnosed as adhd.

He smells everything. books, paper, desk, chairs, anything he picks

up, the floor, blankets, walls. this has always drove me crazy and

is driving his 1'st grade teacher crazy as well. he has always

walk/ran on his tip-toes since a toddler. does this less now but

still at times i will catch him running up on the toes. he is very

impulsive, fidgets, always on the go, hates loud noises and big

groups, stays to his self if a large group is around, falls into

things constantly, flip-flops his body constantly falling, rolling,

has always had trouble using scissors, writing any small motor

skills, has trouble with more than 1 thing to do at a time. his

handwriting is still like a preschool just starting to write. It

takes him longer periods of time to read a book or finish work at

school. It is so hard for him to focus in the classroom with so many

distractions for him going on. They finally started the evaluation

for occupational therapy and i am sooo eager to get him started in

OT. I hope this will help some with school and his work.

I am still new to the sensory issues, so if any one has any

suggestions please feel free to let me know how to help him with any

of this.

I have read about special diets, diary free, and

fish oils. is this something i need to check into for him? He loves

cereal & milk, snacks on cheese all the time. it would be sooo hard

to take him off of diary but it would be worth it if it would help

him.

is there any sites on the internet where i can check

out special diets and foods for sensory issues? Sorry this is so

long. Please send me any suggestions or sites to look at that you

think will be of help to us. Thanks a lot,

kathunter

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February 9, 2008

> my son will be 7 in May. He has been diagnosed with

apraxia and AP

> for about a year now. He sees a private speech therapist 2x a week.

> He has improved in leaps and bounds with his speech in the year's

> time he has been seeing this private speech therapist. He also has

> asthma, and dust mite allegies. He has always been my hyper,

> energetic always on the go child. Everyone always knew he had adhd

> because he was sooooo hyper. we put him on medicine about mid way

> through kindergarten to help him focus. He has been on probably 4-5

> meds in the last year to calm him down and to get him to focus in

> school. Recently his speech therapist introduced us to the

> Occupational therapist and they don't think he has adhd. He has

> multiple sensory issues, which is very easily mis-diagnosed as

adhd.

> He smells everything. books, paper, desk, chairs, anything he picks

> up, the floor, blankets, walls. this has always drove me crazy and

> is driving his 1'st grade teacher crazy as well. he has always

> walk/ran on his tip-toes since a toddler. does this less now but

> still at times i will catch him running up on the toes. he is very

> impulsive, fidgets, always on the go, hates loud noises and big

> groups, stays to his self if a large group is around, falls into

> things constantly, flip-flops his body constantly falling, rolling,

> has always had trouble using scissors, writing any small motor

> skills, has trouble with more than 1 thing to do at a time. his

> handwriting is still like a preschool just starting to write. It

> takes him longer periods of time to read a book or finish work at

> school. It is so hard for him to focus in the classroom with so

many

> distractions for him going on. They finally started the evaluation

> for occupational therapy and i am sooo eager to get him started in

> OT. I hope this will help some with school and his work.

> I am still new to the sensory issues, so if any one has any

> suggestions please feel free to let me know how to help him with

any

> of this.

> I have read about special diets, diary free, and

> fish oils. is this something i need to check into for him? He loves

> cereal & milk, snacks on cheese all the time. it would be sooo hard

> to take him off of diary but it would be worth it if it would help

> him.

> is there any sites on the internet where i can check

> out special diets and foods for sensory issues? Sorry this is so

> long. Please send me any suggestions or sites to look at that you

> think will be of help to us. Thanks a lot,

> kathunter

>

> The information transmitted is intended only for the person or

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>

> Sharon Lang

>

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February 10, 2008

-Hi Kathunter,

My son has Sensory integration disorder as well. He too smells

everything(and I mean everything!)

OT will be a great help for this. We started a sensory diet(nothing

to do with food)while was a few months old. And all that

is is a list of things to do with him that address his needs. A

couple of good books are " the out-of-sync child " and " the out-of sync-

child has fun " I liked the last one more personally. lots of great

ideas.

We aren't doing any special diets. Just fish oil and vitamin e.

hope this helps

Sandy

-- In , " kathoppy " <kathoppy@...>

wrote:

>

> my son will be 7 in May. He has been diagnosed with apraxia and AP

> for about a year now. He sees a private speech therapist 2x a

week.