Reception child delay speech positive stories?

[mollymole999]

Hi

My son is 4.5 just started in reception, he has autism snd a speech delay and a social delay. He's happy playing on his own and doesn't seek out friends but he's fine to be around them. He can say his wants and needs but won't tell u how he's feeling or what he's done that day

He is currently under SALT
He has an autism diagnosis already
School are aware and he has an EHCP with some support

My question here is, has anyone been on my exact situation and can offer a positive experience of how child turned out?

Please no stories of children who never said much at all and then spoke as that isn't the case here. My son DOES talk but not as much as he should for his age

Will he get better? Can anyone relate?

Thanks

Anyone

I think it's quite normally for autistic children to find it difficult to verbalise their feelings, even NT kids at that age find it quite difficult.

Again for not talking about his day at school, it could be a couple of things, either that he assumes you would already know or that he just doesn't want to talk about it. My NT DD hates talking about what she's done at school. My autistic DS needs prompting and we sometimes use a chart with visuals to help him talk about his school day. He also has a home school book, so I can ask about specific activities he might have enjoyed.

My ds had very limited language in reception after losing all his speech at 2.5. He's now 9 and talks all the time. Not quite the same but just because he doesn't talk a lot now, doesn't mean he won't be able to do so later.

Also reception is a very overwhelming time and if your ds is anything like mine, the first thing to go when he's stressed is his speech.

Are the school supporting him with things like small group work and helping him to interact with peers?

My ds is 8, very verbal and it’s really hard to get him to talk about his day and tell us how he’s feeling. I find the more questions we ask, the more it stresses him out.

Ds has always been verbal but his language and social communication were always slightly behind his peers. He has continued to make great progress, went from asking no direct questions at 3.5 to asking them all the time now, for example.

There’s no reason to think your ds won’t continue to make progress, especially if he has SALT input. How frequent are his sessions, are you happy with what they are doing?

The school are supporting him yea

Speech therapy will start again soon now that he's in school. He had therapy from age 2.5 until the summer holidays just gone but now we have to wait for a therapist linked to the school. I have a meeting with senco this week so I'll be asking then when it'll start

Did they give you things to work on at home with him? If not then books like Hanen’s are good for teaching verbal and non-verbal communication.

Yes it's all about modelling language and offering choices etc