7 year old does not know or remember pronouns (in general)

[PigeonLittle]

Just to confirm this is nothing about trans or gender in anybody.

He is 7 years old and does not remember pronouns. Eg our cat is a girl and has been around for all of his life, he continues to call her "him" or "good boy". I went through some people yesterday and it's clear there's a lag and he struggles to remember and gets it wrong.

I suspect he masks it well because he knows everybody's names and rarely uses "her" or "him". We also suspect some neurodiversity, most likely ADHD, maybe DCD.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Do we correct him or ignore it etc?

I'd not directly correct, but repeat back using correct pronoun.

This is the kind of thing my DD used to struggle with, she's OK on that now but still gets all sorts of other language things mixed. (DCD, and ?dyslexia)

Thank you

I'd repeat back correctly.

This is the kind of thing that is addressed in speech therapy with games to match the correct pronoun.

DS used to have the same issue, we were told it was likely related to his speech issues. As PP said you just have to keep modeling the correct language. We were taught not to correct as such.

Eg.
DS "The cat is chasing his own tail"
Us "Yes, the cat is chasing her own tail."

If you google you will find speech therapy pronoun activities like this
www.humber.nhs.uk/downloads/Childrens%20Language%20Resources/Pack%20for%20pronouns.pdf

Thank you, I had no idea it was a SALT issue (it makes sense now I think about it!)