Hello zzzzz and thank you.
Yes, he lives with us full time, he hasn't seen his mother since he was 3. She is AWOL and there has been zero contact.
His language delay puts him at about a 6 year olds level. His sentence formation is very poor. He has no concept of time - days, weeks, months, years or how to read a clock. He seems to learn or hear words wrong and then they just stick e.g 'mu-jamas' for pyjamas, 'am barrow' is bow and arrow, 'plobly' is probably, 'land roger' is Land Rover, 'memember' for remember. He stutters and stammers and it takes a long time for him to get a sentence out which is frustrating for him. He often makes little sense and gets very cross.
His maths is really bad. Times tables are an alien concept. He can add up very basic figures, but can't subtract. He hates maths and get extremely angry when trying which often leads to crying, screaming and throwing books across the room.
Socially he has no understanding of personal space or social boundaries. He is obsessed with war, loves guns, fighting, dare I say it, killing, and more recently obsessed with 'the law'. He repeats the same questions over and over and over. Its very tiring.
His reading age is roughly 5 years 9 months - but he has no interest in books other then in smelling them. He smells a lot of things, I think he gets a lot of information through smell rather then visually. He isn't able to follow stories and seems to not have any imagination which doesn't involve war.
He likes to watch films and play war with his toys whilst making the same noises over and over. I've been listening to those same sounds for 4 years now. They aren't very pleasant : ( He does like drawing and painting but needs to be coaxed into doing them.
Life is very up and down.
I wish we could help him to not be so frustrated and also to help find some friends x x x