Posted at SEN board, didn't get any response. Hence give this high traffic board a try.
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DS10 had speech delay when he's young. Didn't speak in full sentences until starting school at 5yo.
Always struggled with executive functions, especially organising thoughts and expressing them in a way others can follow/understand. He had some development leaps during the years. But COVID set back that for about 1.5 years.
He's diagnosed last year for ADHD (mild/moderate) and has started medication since February. A lot has been improved , but speech remains a challenge. He sometimes just can't find the right words to describe whatever in his mind. He often misses out the key information or any basic background feeds, so that people have no idea what he's talking about. It hurts to hear when his friends could talk at ease about whatever funny or deep thoughts they have while DS tends to pause in mid sentence and drag on before he can make himself understood.
He writes well, but a slow writer. And what he usually focuses on are actions and events, but not able to describe feelings and thoughts.
I really want to help him to be clearer self expressed and better understood by others, especially when he goes to secondary.
I'm not sure if speech therapy is the right answer , as his problems largely lay with processing and organising information.
Has anyone gone through similar situations? Or any advice?