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Does anyone have a child in care that has been diagnosed with this? I am thinking of bringing it up to one of my mom's but not quite sure how. He is already in speech therapy, and there is a part of me that thinks if he has an issue they would have caught it, but he seems to demonstrate a lot of the sypmtoms.
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No, but my son was dx with it when he was much younger. -
If you aren't trained to diagnose children, I would tread VERY lightly with saying a specific disorder. I would share what things you are seeing at daycare and its up to the parents what they do with that information. I think many of the providers here (including me) have been in situations where we are caring for an undiagnosed but obviously special needs child and its really a sticky situation.Comment
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What signs do you see?Comment
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Just curious. .. Why do you think he has this? What is he doing or not doing to make you suspicious?Comment
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I agree with this. My son has dealt with this (mild form) and I've found that it is something not many people have even heard of. He is in End grade now and has adapted and come a long way, but I find any time I bring it up to his teachers they just have a blank stare. Sometimes we are so well versed in development that we spot things a mile away. You are probably dead on! However, all you can do is state the developmental issues you see. Hopefully the speech therapy will lead to occupational therapy as well. But, maybe not! If you have the time, there are things you can do to help this child adapt I things he'll view as "play" and things that would even be good to incorporate in to the group!Comment
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My son has it also. I would just write up a progress report noting the specifics of any symptoms you see, but not saying SPD. Like "X cowers in the corner if another child is crying" "X will not walk on the carpet when barefoot" "X mouths toys consistently". This will also help the parents tell the Occupational Therapist exactly what is being seen so they can target those behaviors during an evaluation. Where does the child receive speech? If it's through early intervention it's normally no big deal to throw in an OT eval during a session or adding an extra session.Comment
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My son has been diagnosed with it and my dd has some of the characteristics. I believe I have it, too. Just never knew there was a name for it until my son was diagnosed.
I would definitely mention your concerns to the parent. You could tell her you've observed certain behaviors that concern you. Maybe you could put those concerns in writing and ask her to run it by her pediatrician. A speech therapist may be focused more on speech issues and may not be trained to spot other issues, especially if what you're seeing is something other than an auditory sensitivity.
The one thing I've learned from my experience with my son is that "specialists" don't know everything. You probably see him a lot more each week than the ST does. That gives you the opportunity to know him better and to pick up on things she may not in an 45-60 minute therapy session.Comment
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I have been watching him for a few months now, and ever since he started, I have believed that he has issues some where. He is a little over 2 and seems very developmentally delayed, though I have had a large group of kids who are advanced, so at first I thought maybe he is on the lower edge of normal, and I am just used to advanced.
I have noticed the following, he constantly mouths things. Toys, clothes, furniture, shoes, hands, He gets distracted extremely easily and can only focus for extremely short amounts of time. He over reacts to the simplest things, example, please put your shoes on the stair, he will scream and throw a tantrum, yet under reacts to major things. He pushed a baby down the other day and I was talking to him about that and put him in time out and he sat and grinned the whole time. He is extrememly overactive, he will just run in circles or hop up and down repeatedly while just making random noise. He is very careless in his movements with no concern for what is around him. Has a very hard time moving from one thing to another, outside to inside, play time to lunch time, lunch to nap, though he has gotten better with this over the past few weeks. Very delayed speech and behavior. He is on the same level as kids a year younger then him. Though we do have older kids in daycare, he imitates and gravitates to the younger ones.
Does this sound like typical 2 year old behavior and I am just used to more mature kids?? I have decided that I am going to document what I see from him for the next week or 2 and then talk with his parents. I plan on asking if they have had him in for a developmental screening. I will suggest that they take him to our local developmental center and have one done. I know that mom is concerned over the mouthing issue. She asked me the other day if I thought it was normal behavior, and I told her I thought it was a little beyond the norm.
I asked about the SID because when I was searching for information on the things I have noticed with him, that is what came up more often then not.Comment
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He sounds an awful lot like my son, who is 2y7m. I think your action plan is sound. As hard as it is to approach mom about what you are seeing, it is the correct path. In the end, it's better to have the eval and have it be nothing than to not have the eval and have it escalate.Comment
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