SALT

[mummycanhandleit]

I took my son to SALT today and they said something about SIL.
Does anyone know what this is?
I have googled it and I can find nothing?

Could it be sli, short for speech and language impairment?

maybe so???? I haven't a clue?

It is probably SLI which stands for Specific Language Impairment (my son has it). I have a leaflet that describes it as a significant ongoing difficulty with understanding and using spoken language
hope that helps - have more info on leaflet if you want

There was a thread on this not that long ago. Just trying to find it - but they've changed the bleeding search facility....

here you go. An amazing thread about SLI

Thanks Janx, any information on it would be great.
If you don't mind me asking is it anything to do with ASD or SPD? Its just my son has just been diagnosed with SPD and they are in the middle of referral after referral to see about ASD? Just wondering if there was any connection?

Thanks Indigo, I'm gonna have a check at that now. I don't know about you's but I need to know everything about everything when it comes to all these meetings or they just make me feel stupid and talk down to me. So I need to get prepared lol
I'll end up a head doc at this rate

I am going to the Nuffield Centre for a full assesment of ds (3) but I don't think he has asd - what is spd? I think he has an auditory processing problem - he can hear perfectly well but finds is hard to translate the sound of a word into making the word - he finds constants particularly difficult

SPD is sensory processing disorder, my ds (4) was diagnosed with it last month. His problems lie in auditory, tectile, proprioception, oral and vestibular.
He needs a lot of deep pressure activities OT has done him a sensory diet for school and home.
Its all new to me trying to understand it.
He also has to go to audiologist on Friday to see if anythng wromg with his hearing

At the audiologist ask for a copy of his audiogram.

NHS Audiologists don't check for many hearing conditions - they normally only check for hearing loss.

Specifically ask them to test for 'hypersensitive hearing' - you will see this on the audiogram as a peak above 0.

If he does have hypersensitive hearing then auditory integration training can cure this. But the NHS don't like to even test for it - and certainly don't believe it can be cured.

Also ask them to test for 'auditory discrimination problems'......

Thats great, thanks. So, if I ask NHS to test for these things will they do it there and then or palm me off with another date and another specialist?
Will I get the audiogram there and then? Do you get a report from them?
Thanks again xxx

Indigobell - can I just thank you for your note above? I was just googling what to pop in a note to our audiology clinic at my lad's hearing review. I'm hoping by asking in advance I can avoid the need for yet another long wait and referral etc(roll eyes).

In my lingo he deffo has hypersensitive hearing and it causes major issues for him in a school environment but I had no idea of what technical terms to ask them to look for.

I don't know if the NHS audiologist will test for these things - we had to go private to get these tests done.

But then when we went to the NHS audiologist I didn't know to ask for these tests :)

So I hope you have more luck than me.

The technical word for hypersensitive hearing is Hyperacusis

And it can be cured by auditory integration training.