My son just doesn't eat. When he was younger, he constantly said he wasn't hungry, even when he hadn't eaten in more than a day. It took way to long for someone to listen to my concerns and get him diagnosed with SPD. He has many other traits as a sensory seeker, but the most concerning for me was always the refusal to eat. We've come a long way in the year since he's been diagnosed but we're still far from him having a healthy diet. Now he'll at least eat 3 meals a day but they are very limited meals. There are only a handful of foods that he'll eat and he, for the most part, refuses to try new foods. Even the foods he does like to eat constantly change without warning. For breakfast, he might eat half of his small pancake. Lunch is half a PB&J sandwich which usually fills him up before it's all gone. Dinner is the worst, it's always a battle trying to get him to pick something he wants to eat and he rarely finishes it. He's terribly underweight, almost 5yrs old and still wearing 18mo old shorts. I've tried all the "picky eater" remedies and none of them work for him. He doesn't care how "fun" it looks or that he helped me make it or that he gets a prize when he's finished it all. Has anyone else had eating problems with their SPD child? Any suggestions from people who actually understand that he's not your typical picky eater?

We were taking him to OT when he was first diagnosed but no OT in our area takes our insurance (Medicaid) so we had to stop taking him after only a few sessions because we just couldn't afford it. I'm trying to do this all on my own and I really just feel like I'm not getting anywhere with him.