Anyone here with an older child with a Language Processing Disorder?

[mumtumtru]

Hi all,

My 7 year old son has been diagnosed with a LPD - mainly receptive but ive noticed some expressive (slow to respond sometimes and seems a bit dreamy in his head!), expressive he mainly has issues following instructions etc. Hes good at reading, good at answering the factual questions but struggles with the inference comprehension. The teacher at his school has to spend some time reinforcing instructions to him on tasks that she requires he does etc. He will need constant reminding to do various things etc. He had a speech delay when he was younger and we have him in weekly SLT that has helped.

Does anyone have children that are his age and above? It would be helpful to see what you've implemented other than SLT that has helped? Have you found that its impacted him academically? The suggestion from the school seems to be that he may struggle the further up the years he goes and academic outcome is poor which is a bit depressing!!

Thanks

Hey there, not sure if this is helpful or not, your son seems very different to mine but felt I should reply.

My son has a language processing disorder and the part you said about instructions really resonated. To put in context, my son is also autistic and dyslexic and struggles with routines.

These are the things that help our son. Lists to get ready e.g. put lunchbox in bag. It just saves me having to remind him and him processing it. He has a list at school too. Giving time after instructions. So short instruction then give 20-30 seconds and he'll often start doing it. I used to restart reminding after about 10 seconds I reckon and it's an extra thing for them to process. E.g. I'd say, put this book in your bag= no response. So i'd say "go on, pop it in your bag". Now I just give the initial instrcution, wander off and it's done.

@mumtumtru how did your son get diagnosed with a LPD? My 7 yr struggles with talking but she’s already diagnosed with ASD and on the waiting list for adhd. But there is more going on I know it - maybe dyslexia. I’m not sure where to go to get help. Thanks

Hey
My little girl is 3 and diagnosed with autism and is Gestalt Language processor with echolalia.

Agree with other replies and using visual timers for example, you can get sets of them with different times. It may help him to understand you have to do this following this action of the timer, if that makes sense?
My daughter will say no many times until I implement time, that may be 2 minutes or 5 minutes given what I'm expecting her to do. I have to be very careful about how and what language I use, for example she would prefer choices. Over me telling her.
Shall we have a shower or bath?
Shall we have purple juice or orange juice?

Sometimes given her control over small things in a situation really helps.
Hope you manage to find help - I'm still waiting for SLT to contact me following her diagnosis.