About 99% of DS2's ongoing problem is that he tends to hear language in chunks of melody, so goes on facial expression/context/tone of voice and whatever words he picks out and therefore frequently fails to understand what is said to him, particularly when said by other children.
I play "Simon Says" a lot (he can do three steps, sometimes with each one having a combined element eg "touch curtains then jump on sofa then crawl on the rug" and we talk a lot about "first X then Y". When he is the Simon Says questionmaster he'll give me four steps and frankly I struggle to remember them but he always does. So he must be capable of analytical sequential reasoning relating to transient phenomena, surely?
But Ds2 is only just starting to understand questions like "what are you wearing on your feet?". Today I said "what's your brother called?" and he said "DS2" and we had to go through identifying his friends' brothers then asking again for his own brother's name.
Please can someone give me a magic pill to make it go away? no? ok then, please can you give me some of your own games/tips or more specific reading instructions to break up the tedium a bit?
You know, tonight I just want some speech therapist to turn up at my door and say "it's fine, you go back to being a lawyer. I'll fix his receptive language within the next year". sorry, mustn't grumble and all that and am grateful for his progress this year.