I have been thinking about everything you both have said about this. Our daughter has been evaluated by three OTs who all said that she is not on the spectrum. Her pediatrician and a developmental pediatrician also said she is not on the spectrum.
She does have clumsiness and expressive delays in her speech, as though she is hesitating to get her words out, but not stuttering.
What if she just has SPD and giftedness? I also talked with a clinical psychologist who evaluates gifted children who told me that eye tracking issues are a common concern. The psychologist also said that vision training is helpful for this. The psychologist said that average processing scores usually go with high fluid reasoning in six year olds, because six year old hands are still six year old hands.
Our daughter does have eye tracking issues, and she is very emotional and affectionate, tells jokes, engages in witty banter, has a huge imagination. She has friends but does best one on one and has more of a challenge in groups.
I went through the diagnostic criteria and imho she only meets two of those criteria, 2a and 2b regarding speech. The first speech therapist who evaluated her when she was four ran through all the questions up to the seven year old level, then stopped because she didn't have the next level of tests with her and our time was up, so she never met a ceiling. That ST said our daughter's apparent expressive delays were actually caused by our daughter trying to express her thoughts with a four year old mouth and that ST was not needed. She can talk and have back and forth, but other people usually interrupt her before she can get her words out.
Last edited by Treasuremapper; 05/09/10 10:48 PM.
