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Hello! I searched for this as a forum topic, but didn't find anything, although I can't imagine it hasn't been asked before.

My son just turned 3 and we are starting to see a child psychiatrist to better handle his emotional needs. She would like to rule in or out SPD. Some days I am sure he does have SPD and some days I don't see it. Bottomline, we need to just go through the entire eval process.
Can any of the parents who have been in this position share their experience with testing?

Also the doctor wants to do genetic testing. I ask, for what? She says, "Just to see if he has any quirky genes." I respond, "How would that inform us? What can you test for?" She says, "Nothing specific, we can just seeing variants." Anyone have genetic testing done?

Thank you!

Update: The OT said that he definitely does not have SPD, but what she calls "Sensory Defensive". We have now eliminated just about everything.