DS10 had speech delay when he's young. Didn't manage to speak on full sentences until starting school at 5yo.
Always struggled with executive functions, especially organising thoughts and expressing them in a way others can understand. He had some bounces during the years in terms of development. But COVID set back that for about 1.5 years.
He's diagnosed last November for ADHD (mild/moderate) and has started medication since February. A lot has been improved , but speech remains a challenge. He sometimes just can't find the right words to describe whatever whenever in his mind. He often misses out the key words or any basic background information, so that people have no idea what he's talking about. It hurts to hear when his friend at playdate could speak at ease with whatever funny or serious thoughts they have while DS tends to pause in mid sentence and drag on before he can make himself understood.
He writes well, but a slow writer. And what he usually focuses on are actions and events, but not able to describe feelings and thoughts. (Not so inwards thinking).
I really want to help him to be clearer self expressed and better understood by others, especially when he goes to secondary.
I'm not sure if speech therapy is the right path, as his problems largely lay with processing and organising information.
Has anyone gone through similar situations?