When you have a child with special needs, in our case it is Sensory Processing Disorder or SPD, and dyspraxia… there is always the hope that you will find the support you need in the form of family, friends, therapists and even support groups filled with those on similar journeys.
What is hard is when you have a child who has disorders that, although you are told are prevalent in the population, appear to be evident in your child only. No matter how hard you look or scan crowds of children, no matter how many towns you go into, no one quite shows the signs of the disorders quite the way your child does.
No one but you it seems is coercing your screaming child into a shopping cart, into shoes, into a high chair. Continue reading