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buryuntime
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11 Aug 2010, 7:14 pm

http://www.sensory-processing-disorder. ... klist.html

Why does this list include things like problems with routine and social issues, and even problems with eye contact and seeing details instead of the big picture?

It seems like this is a clumsy list of every sensory problem one could have, with a slew of autistic traits. How am I to know if I simply have SPD that is causing social dysfunction, and not autism?



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11 Aug 2010, 7:39 pm

My son has AS and also some sensory processing difficulties. He was diagnosed according to WHO ICD-10 which focusses, more narrowly than DSM, on communication difficulties. His sensory processing problems are therefore viewed as being distinct from his autism, although the two are often found together in one individual.



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11 Aug 2010, 10:02 pm

Lots of autism cases involve sensory processing problems;

aspergers: typically social/communication issues w/o the sensory problems (or at least the sensory problems are so mild that they do not affect daily functioning to an extreme)

http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/

http://www.sensory-processing-disorder. ... ation.html

Basics: Autism vs. SPD very similar disorders but people with both have greater issues with language/communication, social skills & emotional issues that individuals w/ just SPD lack... I'd especially say the language/communication issues are more autism than SPD (except for stuff like fine motor issues, etc. that may be shared)

Look at my 2nd link especially


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11 Aug 2010, 11:00 pm

Peko wrote:
Lots of autism cases involve sensory processing problems;

aspergers: typically social/communication issues w/o the sensory problems (or at least the sensory problems are so mild that they do not affect daily functioning to an extreme)

http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/

http://www.sensory-processing-disorder. ... ation.html

Basics: Autism vs. SPD very similar disorders but people with both have greater issues with language/communication, social skills & emotional issues that individuals w/ just SPD lack... I'd especially say the language/communication issues are more autism than SPD (except for stuff like fine motor issues, etc. that may be shared)

Look at my 2nd link especially

But what about someone with just SPD, if they have autistic symptoms they are just watered-down or not extreme I would guess? It seems strange to me the amount children it says who were referred for SPD but didn't have autism. Perhaps autism was already ruled out before they were referred for SPD?

I guess considering that SPD isn't a recognizable DSM diagnosis it isn't going to /have/ clear-cut criteria and that it doesn't matter considering autism seems to be correlated with sensory issues.



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12 Aug 2010, 3:50 am

buryuntime wrote:
Why does this list include things like problems with routine and social issues, and even problems with eye contact and seeing details instead of the big picture?


It includes the widest variety of symptoms because it is a shop (http://www.sensory-processing-disorder. ... store.html), and selling to the biggest group of customers it can convince it has products for.