Debbie,
I'm curious - do you see the SPD as something that may go with giftedness from birth. Or, with any of these kids do you see that their focus on intellectual development has come at the expense of needed sensory and motor skills play? I ask because I felt like with our son there was clearly sensory defensiveness from birth (I have it too so that wasn't a total surprise) but the very intense drive toward sedentary intellectual activity (early reading, focused playing of board games) didn't help. Those activities were just so much easier and more satisfying for him so it required concerted effort to push sensory and motor play. Knowing that was part of why we made him go to the park daily and why we chose a developmental rather than academic preschool. I feel like if he'd been in a full time academic school or if he'd had access to TV and computer it would have been much worse.
