Has anyone else seen this..

I have not seen exactly what you are describing, but I do recall that when my children were younger and were going through growth spurts or entering into a new phase of development there would often be a short period of back sliding and more difficult behavior. I wonder if the therapies you are pursuing are spurring developmental growth and these are the signs of it.

Andrea

…yup. I saw something similar with my kids when young.

One dd was so active and curious she devised a lightening fast, very strange spin to travel since her crawl was slower and not perfected yet. Everyone thought she would walk early b/c she was so mobile hitting early milestones in the pre-walking stuff. Then it completely halted b/c she discovered speech - words can communicate and converse - Chatty Cathie emerged - she started stringing words together very early. You could see the lightbulb of recognition and delight in her face when she discovered what speech could do. After 2-3 months of this speech flood, she then started up with the walking progress that had dead-on stopped.

I also know if dd is finally ‘getting’ something like expressive writing which was a major challenge, other previously learned things (spelling, handwriting) go the wayside for a bit. When she started mastering the thought organization, the others came back. So it might have appeared she was regressing, but she wasn’t. It’s like she is saving her concentration(?) and effort for the new skill but needs a release in other areas.

Sounds plausible to me.

Yes, I remember reading T Berry Brazelton when my son was little. He had a book called touch points that describes this phenomena.

I almost forgot about that. It is funny, I don’t remember my younger son who is not LD/ADHD having the same touchpoints as my older child. Everything was just very smooth, no turmoil.

Thanks, that must be it.

Plateaus alternating with spurts, disequilibrium, shifts in attention — all are normal, normal, normal!! If kids were all neatly programmed robots working on the same time track, parents and teachers could just curl up in a ball and roll away. Have fun with your bright, interesting, creative child, and pity those with boring lumps. They don’t know what they’re missing.

THANKS Victoria…if only your good sense were ‘common’, we’d all be better off. The thing that bugs me MOST about ‘LD’ is the phantom ‘normal’ person we are all being compared to, in order to ‘dx’ our ‘disorders’…BOGUS!

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Yes! I noticed it particuarly with IM last summer. He was so out of control!! I haven’t noticed it with vision therapy, but I don’t think VT is hitting him as deeply. Plus its spring, we are moving, he’s changing schools - we are all in such disequilibrium anyway I’m not sure I’d notice!