My son was non verbal until age 7.
He has ASD and severe language disorders. He has not been able to read or write. After I took him to a behavioural optometrist I found out he can’t see properly. Then I paid for a private educational Pyhcologist and found out he has average IQ and dyslexia. Anyway after over a year of seeing a private tutor and the behavioural optometrist he started to read a bit.
over Christmas we had a Chinese takeaway and he opened his fortune cookie and read what it said unprompted like he was bog standard 11 year old. We was all just so happy.
the things that I’d possibly take for granted with was never a possibility when he was 7.