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Sensory Processing Disorder
I didn't even know how to start this post. I was not even sure I was going to write it. A good friend of mine once told me I write my best material with my actual experiences. Well she was right. I thought for weeks how to write this so I am just going to bite the bullet and say it. After many long years, my son was diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder. Since Pre-school I knew he something was up with him. A mother knows by instinct, something no doctor or professional can understand. But God is awesome. He prepared me in Little Baby steps. First sending him to a private school. They tried really hard to help him. They couldn't. Their exact words were--they couldn't figure him out. The public school before this school told me it was a behavior issue.
I was in church one day after dropping him off at the school I knew would call me in an hour to come and observe what he is doing. God gently in His kind way told me to home school him. Years before he prepared me by allowing me to go to school and be trained as a special ed teacher. It was time. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome for this to happen, but eventually he came home and he has been home schooled for 4 years to date. He loves homeschooling. it gives him the flexibility for him to learn at his pace and in depth with the subject we are learning, that traditional school could not offer him.
A good friend told me to read the Out of Sync child after seeing him in a drama production. She and I both knew he had sensory issues just by the makeup he had to put on. As I read the book, it explained my son to a t. After talking to his regular doctor she referred me to Children's Hospital in my area. Three months later he was diagnosed. For all of us it was a blessing. God gives us all gifts, his by far is his memory and his loves for history and science, and his art drawings. God has twice gifted him once with a Learning Disability and second with his gifts. He will have to compensate and re-train his brain how to do things, but God will show Him the way. We are all children of God First. All things are possible through Him--through Jesus. When I look at my son, I see the love that Jesus gives us each day. He has shown me the amazing capacity of love for life and his family. Our Blessed Mother has become my constant companion in this new walk with God and Luke. Thank you Jesus for Blessing me with this precious boy for all these years and continue to Bless our walk together toward your light.
I was in church one day after dropping him off at the school I knew would call me in an hour to come and observe what he is doing. God gently in His kind way told me to home school him. Years before he prepared me by allowing me to go to school and be trained as a special ed teacher. It was time. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome for this to happen, but eventually he came home and he has been home schooled for 4 years to date. He loves homeschooling. it gives him the flexibility for him to learn at his pace and in depth with the subject we are learning, that traditional school could not offer him.
A good friend told me to read the Out of Sync child after seeing him in a drama production. She and I both knew he had sensory issues just by the makeup he had to put on. As I read the book, it explained my son to a t. After talking to his regular doctor she referred me to Children's Hospital in my area. Three months later he was diagnosed. For all of us it was a blessing. God gives us all gifts, his by far is his memory and his loves for history and science, and his art drawings. God has twice gifted him once with a Learning Disability and second with his gifts. He will have to compensate and re-train his brain how to do things, but God will show Him the way. We are all children of God First. All things are possible through Him--through Jesus. When I look at my son, I see the love that Jesus gives us each day. He has shown me the amazing capacity of love for life and his family. Our Blessed Mother has become my constant companion in this new walk with God and Luke. Thank you Jesus for Blessing me with this precious boy for all these years and continue to Bless our walk together toward your light.
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