Hi, I wondered whether anyone else had some thoughts on this. It is getting me rather down at times. As some of you know, DS is nearly 4, he is on a home ABA programme, which is killing us financially and is often very stressful generally, but is clearly bearing wonderful fruit in terms of his behaviour and general functioning. Challenging behavioiur has all but disappeared, he is very interactive, compliance is right up, he is starting to interact with other children....etc etc etc...He is basically a different child from who he was a year ago before this started.
But...and it is obviously a big but....despite a huge focus on this, he still has no speech at all (a couple of copied sounds but never spontaneously, and about three Makaton signs). We celebrate all the other things all the time and tell ourselves how well he is doing and how all the stress and sacrifices are worth it, but always at the back of my mind is well, yes that's great, but, what kind of life will he have if he can never speak? I can't help feeling down about it.
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Lovely progress in all areas but still no speech
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