Long auditory processing delay

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Have realised in last week that DD (3.7, no DX yet) IS responding but much later than you'd expect, so usually one has given up, or she is distracted.

I knocked on car window as she went past, assumed she ignored me, then realised she turned really late when she was already past car.

Today I was peeking at her through window in top of her raincover and thought she wasn't joining in, a full couple of minutes later I heard "hello..hiya..hello" and she was looking up and giggling.

Does anyone have any experience of this? Does it get better? Is it a sign of ASD?

Is there anything I can do to help it, I can't imagine how she will make friends/learn at school etc with this processing delay.

Haven't had any SALT since we started Hanen course in November (which didn't help much).

TIA.

Thanks. I hope we get to see one soon, this is quite an exciting discovery but no idea how to help her with it.

Definitely is a severe language disorder, she isn't getting far with speech at all, is like dyspraxia except a year ago she had a lot of words which were perfectly clear, very puzzling.

Ds has devlopmental verbal dyspraxia which means not only dies he struggle with words sounds if he dies get word right no gurantee he will ever be able say it the same again

They are very aware she used to have clear speech, but noone has suggested verbal dyspraxia, surprisingly, as she has physical symptoms too.

also , when i say she had words which were clear, I meant ALL her words were clear, her speech was 100% understandable, advanced and she knew 100s of words at 2.

yes, it is very strange, she is very happy though at the moment, thankfully!!

I agree with Troublewithtalk, although we did Therapeutic Listening (3 times now), which is different but same principle. DD2's Auditory processing is much much better since doing this. Still a way to go, but definately going in the right direction.

Thanks very much, will look into that, it sounds really helpful and suitable for DD

Was reading The Times earlier, there is a letter to Professor Tanya Byron about a boy with auditory processing delay. She gives lots of recommendations and people to contact etc

Yes, i read that too, glad it is being recognised more!!