Thanks for replying everyone.
First of all my son is 10 1/2 years. Second is I am a physical therapist and have worked with kids who have SI problems.
I have read Webbs book; I have read lots of books, I have also read many of the articles from SENG(very worthwhile) Every since he has been little like days old I noticed an extreme increase in alertness-mostly visual, auditory, tactile. Unfortunately since he was little- educators and other family members have wanted to dx zachary with a variety of dx. If I had gone along with some of their notions he would have been dx'd pervasive dx, aspergers, ADD/HD etc and or auditory processing or all of the above. His MD who is very involved pretty much scoffed at the ideas.
What was an ongoing problem with some educators was they thought they were always right and were quite unprofessional. It became useless d/t less than open mindedness on their part. The only thing that has made sense to me was possibly SI-( I considered it numerous times) it was never suggested by any of them- (until the other day). It has not interfered with education at all so there has never been a low acheiving issue. He attends school in California but in a school district with many high achievers(silicon valley). He is able to perform in the at above average range with little to no effort. The only issue is at times behavior. Over the past couple of years he has articulated very well that the playground or loud music/noise bother him. So that he cannot think as well- resulting in behavior that lands him in trouble. If people talk to him he sometimes will start to talk louder and louder as he gets excited and as their voice volume increases. In general he is a very loving, happy, overly enthusiatic child who is full of expression and creativity.
So I feel like a clueless parent as this should have been elementary to me but many people and educators went down these other avenues. I think intuitively I did many of the things that one would do for SI kids in our daily life( it was part my nature), --the reason it came up again was my son's new principal who had a few runs in with him noted some of these issues and suggested SI, at that point I revistited everything again-for the 10th time probably. I have been reading about the increased sensitivity in the gifted etc; as a parent and as someone who has worked with SI children do they(experts) think they are the same or not(SI versus increased sensitivity in gifted). I at this point have my own theory after obviously much confusion, reading, thinking.
Thanks again and any ideas thoughts are really appreciated.
Karen
