DS2 is 4.5 and has an IEP for speech, OT, academic delays (I don't remember what it is qualified as exactly but it was a generic "early childhood delay" label he qualified under.)
He goes to half day preschool through the school district and has an inclusion preschool class and receives his speech and OT there. We are relatively happy with it all and he has made tremendous progress (literally went from spending the fall semester hiding in the corner and refusing to participate at all at his regular ed preschool to interacting, making friends, riding the bus to preschool without getting upset, etc. He can go to a busy playground and make a friend now vs. a year ago he'd be crying on a bench begging to leave and refusing to play if there were more then a couple kids at the playground.)
He has never been formally diagnosed with anything but I am pretty sure he has sensory processing disorder (I have an education background and my mom is a retired special ed teacher), and my mom feels like there is probably either some OCD/anxiety at play as well but it's really hard to eek out right now. (Does he only wear the same 3 shirts and 3 pairs of shorts every day over and over bc it's a sensory thing and he knows they are comfortable, or is it an OCD thing, or just a 4yo who loves Batman shirts thing?) We would not medicate him for anything at this point as we can talk him through a lot of his anxieties most of the time with a lot of time and patience (ie. last year he refused to swim/do water play/do Ferris wheels, etc., this year he has been fine with everything except doesn't like getting his face under water.)
Anyway, we have his well visit at the ped coming up and I am not sure if I should ask about a developmental ped/work toward getting a formal diagnosis or just keep going as we are since he is already receiving services and making really great progress and I'm not sure that there's a point in pursuing a label further at this point when he's already receiving services and it is going well. I don't want to shortchange him by not getting more information though if it could be helpful. Thoughts?!