3 year old with SPD
hello - we took our 3 year old to the neurologist because he does these stimming behaviors a lot of the day. He is NOT delayed in any sense. The neurologist diagnosed with SPD & said he would outgrow it soon or by age 5. He seems to be doing these behaviors more though since the diagnosis. He stays at home with me.
He waves objects in front of his face over and over again when he has no structured play. We tried OT but it did not help — he seemed to stim even more after. I am looking for advice or someone with experience with a child that had this in the past. I would love to help him succeed in any way that I can. It seems he would rather stim with an object than play with it normally. He is capable of playing normally and will do so with his sister or play pretend for 10 min or so. Then back to stimming.
His pediatricians advice was to pretend like he didn’t receive the SPD diagnosis and try to get him diagnosed again for autism by one of these autism centers nearby. Im unsure if that is the right idea. She also referred us to genetics