Hi, our DD is 3 and suspected ASD. She has been identified as having severe social and communication delays. She does actually have a lot of words, knows her numbers/ shapes/ alphabet and has recently started using a handful of single and two word phrases functionally to ask for things eg ‘open’. But her understanding really seems to be lagging, I’m not convinced she can understand most of what we say. Occasionally with lots of repetition and gestures she may follow a simple instruction like ‘sit down’ or ‘stop’. But other simple instructions like ‘get book’ she wouldn’t follow. She can point at me and say mummy but wouldn’t be able to do this in response to me saying ‘where’s mummy’. It’s odd how her expressive language seems to be incrementally improving but her understanding is not and I can see that progress will become static soon. We have had private weekly SALT for months which seems to have increased her vocab of nouns and added in some verbs but not much else. I try to really break down what I say to one or two words only, use actions to try explain what I’m asking/ lots of repetition etc but it seems to have limited effect. She won’t pay attention or engage with things like makaton or visual aids such as the now and next board. We have just started the attention bucket to try help with this. Has anyone had similar and could give some further tips on what helped improved your LO’s understanding? From the reading I’ve done it’s seems to suggest the receptive language delay needs a lot of work to improve so this is unlikely to sort itself out on its own ☹️ Thanks for reading. X