OT Speech issues

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Hello all--

I've been out for a while--super busy. About the speech issues--my son, who

just turned 8, had almost no receptive language prior to being 4 and a half

(e.g., you could say, " Put this in the trash " , and he could not understand

that until he was about four and a half). It did slowly develop, and he has

really good receptive language now. In second grade school work, it only

shows up in his reading comprehension. And it's really not that he doesn't

understand what he read, it's that he doesn't understand what the question

is asking. He spends about 90% of the day in a regular classroom. He has

great expressive speech/language. We're very proud.

Don't be hard on yourself, Antoinette (or others), for grieving the loss of

that perfect child. That's natural, and it still comes in waves in our

house--years after knowing the diagnosis. 's future is wide open,

and yet, sometimes I'm so sad for all he's gone through, or when he cries

that he's different, that I can hardly stand it. It's grief that he is

still going to have a hard life, even after all he's had to endure--it's

tough for me, because, like all of you, I'd give absolutely anything to

change it. This diet has helped with repeating--he used to repeat lots of

things, over and over--he doesn't do that anymore (unless he manages to

sneak forbidden foods--which has happened three times in the four months

that we've been doing this...)

I hope you all have a great weekend,

and fam