His speech is still a bit unclear, so I asked for a referral to a speech therapist. We were given an appt for a hearing test, prior to being booked in for speech therapy, and tbh I thought it was just a formality. However, it seems that his hearing isn't great, and that there might be fluid behind his eardrums.
I'm fairly confident that it will be something treatable (like glue ear...although he has never had an ear infection; don't they usually go hand in hand?), but I am feeling really terrible for not spotting it myself earlier. I thought he had a bit of "selective hearing", and have often been snappy with him when I've repeated myself for the umpteenth time ("DS, get your shoes on..... Shoes on!.... WILL YOU PLEASE GET YOUR SHOES ON!!" etc).
It was so heartbreaking watching him struggle in the test, and it seemed so bloody obvious with the things the audiologist was doing. I feel like a schmuck. Poor DS