butterflypirate, except for the walking/talking development (my DD1 walked at 9 months... talked at 2.3 years). Those symptoms are a lot like my DD1. She has high functioning autism, and with that severe sensory integration disorder.

We have been doing over a year of OT, some speech pathology and a bit of psychological behavioural work and she's a different child. We haven't had a meltdown in ages. I can not encourage hard enough the need for early intervention and getting them into a good OT as soon as you can.