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| Fri, 11-11-2005 - 8:52am |
You stated that your son is/was underresponsive. I am wondering what that meant. My Ds goes for an OT eval this month and when I gave her an overview on the phone she said that it sounded like he might be underresponive. Can you give me a description of what that looks like or means.
Thanks
Sonya
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Sonya

Jake would be a couch potato if I let him. He's not as active as most kids his age but he has motor planning issues as well. I can only tell you from my experience how Jake is under-responsive. He dosen't seem bothered by wet or soiled diapers, he dosen't notice when he has food on his mouth or when his hands are dirty, he never takes bites of food instead he stuffs his mouth to the brim because he dosen't have the sensation his mouth is full. He was never bothered by sand or any kind of texture on his skin. He loves hugs and has always craved big bear hugs from me and my husband.I hope you don't mind but I had an OT appointment today for my dd and asked the OT about some of the things you had mentioned in your posting. She said a child can go from being over-responsive to under-responsive which I didn't know myself and that they can be over sensitive to touch and underresponsive to visual or someother sense all at the same time.She agrees that your son is probably underresponsive right now because she said most kids who are over responsive would never wear hats(I told her about the construction hat)and they certainly would never wear a rubber rain coat but she said he could still be overresponsive at the same time.She thinks he'll probably qualify for OT again.Jake will only say hi to my dh when he comes home from work if he's not engrossed in trains or a t.v show. Jake did have alot of repeating and had a difficult time with yes and no questions.Echolia can be normal to a certain degree I was told up to age 3 once the child has spontanous speech and is not repeating everything all the time. I realised after a while that Jake would repeat the last word of every sentence.Jake is interested in other kids but isn't really able to hold conversations. Your son could be avoiding other kids for sensory reasons. Hopefully there will be a cancelation and you will be able to get into see the developmental ped sooner. Have E.I ever evaluated his speech?Have you read "The out of sync child"?It's a great book and is easy to understand.
HTH
Teresa
I was just wondering when your O.T appointment is? Keep me posted about how things go! I know how stressful this must be for you. The constant worrying and watching every little thing Jake would do nearly drove me nuts. Hang in there!
Teresa
I think you might have confused me with someone else. My Jacob doesn't wear a raincoat or a construction hat. I think that was in someone elses post. My Jacob will wear his winter hat though. Our OT appt. is next Monday. My concerns are that he is very inconsistent with what he does. I get more response out of him after he has been in a swing or pushed down the driveway in his car. When he is very involved in something he does not respond to his name. Other times he does. Sometimes he waves bye other times he doesn't. IT's weird. He also tends to zone out when there is a lot of people or noise. The dev. ped. think part of this is personality. He is a text book slow to warm child. In fact at our last developmental visit, Jacob basically sat there for 25 minutes before he did anything. Then he started playing and had a decent amount of joint attention. It is all so difficult. Yesterday we were at a friends house and Jacob was "into" something and she called his name 6 times before he looked. I was SO embarassed and she even knows about all my concerns. Anyhow, thanks for responding to the post
Sonya
Sorry! You are right, I did mix up my messages. I forget how old you said your son was but I know I had a hard time getting a response from Jake all the time when he was younger.He can still drown me out but NT kids do that so I wouldn't worry about that so much.Is he old enough to talk? If so, do you notice anything strange about the way he speaks?How is he with other kids? My dd is also slow to warm up to people and will often do what you described at the doctors office. She is over- sensitive to touch so she's hyper vigilant when new people are around. Jake on the other hand is what you would call over friendly. He hugs everyone(LOL).Have you heard about Sensory Integration dysfunction? It may be just all sensory stuff? Keep me posted about the O.T appointment.
Teresa
Jacob is 13 months. He is 2 months lang. delayed according to the dev. ped. He does say mama and no and I swear he has said night night. He is starting to understand more things, but not consistently. He will crawl to me when I tell him it is time to eat or go night night. When he comes across kids, it takes awhile to warm up , but he seems interested for awhile. He looks at them, but doesn't necessarily join in. The sitter says he sits and watches a lot. But he is only 1 and that could just be parallel play.
The reason for his OT appt. is to look for sensory issues. HE is super alert in the bathtub or after he eats I can get him to imitate some sounds (he just doesn't really look at me). SO, I just don't know. I told my husband that whatever Jacob does I can somehow relate it back to him being autistic. And that's sad. But also part of my profession. So, I am hoping he will qualifiy for OT. He doesn't walk yet, but will cruise. ANd he is very into buttons (another thing I can relate back to autism) BUt my husband is a mechanical engineer and my MIL said DH was always pushing buttons and taking things apart at Jacobs age too.
So, we'll see.
Thanks for the responses.
SOnya