Anyone got a 6 year old with speech issues?

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My DS had a speech delay when younger, very slow to talk, dribbled excessively, glue ear but passed all hearing tests somehow ?! Understanding all ok. Had tonsils and adenoids out to help when he was 3. He has much improved, with therapy, will talk to people, but other people find him hard to understand still. He has started speech therapy again, and it just seems a massive task. I worry about him so much, especially as he's my oldest child and I feel I can't dedicate as much time as he needs as I have younger ones too ( which all developing on target.) He also wants to be an actor which seems a big ask ( obviously he's 6 and may change his mind 1000 times. ) Just wondering if anyone had a similar age child with speech issues?

My now 13 year old has verbal/ oral dyspraxia, he went to London every 2 weeks to the Nuffield, then went to a school with a speech and language unit until he was 11. Most of what he says we understand now but when he is tired or stressed we can't understand him as well.
Speak to his salt to see if you can get him into a school with a specialist unit as it helps so much.

@6demandingchildren thanks I have no idea if there is anything around here like that, will definitely research. I suppose I had thought he was doing so well as he was speaking so much more and long sentences. Although he gets stuck on words and stammers at times ( when tired like you say) but it's that I can understand him, just like I can understand my 18 month old, you tune into them.

I hold so much guilt about his speech delay, because the SALT team sent me on a later talkers workshop and basically said it was because I was speaking to him in the wrong way, despite the other issues. My DH was terrible with him as a young child, out working long hours just and both sets of grandparents were very hands off, not even interested in talking to him when they did visit. Things have improved with the younger DC.