Hi , my son just turned 5 and has been diagnosed with Autism. We haven't received the full report yet. In the spoken feedback she said there seems to be some disordered language and processing issues. I agree. He does not talk about the past or future. He is in the now. He does well with vocabulary and nouns but conversation and questions from him don't happen.
Did anyone have a child similar and did speech therapy help? We are going to follow up with some more in depth assessment on speech and language.
He talks to himself a lot, likes to tell stories that he loves- fairytales. I'm just wondering how much progress is possible. I know it's so different for every child. I'm just very sad today.
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ASD and Language Disorder reassurance please
Crystalball84 · 11/04/2024 10:21
Rhubarblin · 11/04/2024 20:38
They did "Bucket Time" everyday and then 3x a week targeted SALT working on the "BLANK levels". You should be able to google both of these for ideas? We used to do a bucket time type thing at home. Then to work on the blank levels, I just kept modelling the answers until she was able to do it, throughout the day. You're probably already doing this naturally. She's now at Level 3 but can also do a bit of 4.
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