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I'm kind of doing the "when to worry" thing with my 4yo. He's always been pretty slow with speech development, but not so much that we've pursued therapy. Now, he just turned four this month, his vocabulary is good, he uses good, complex sentences...the actual issue is hard to pin down. It's more subtle. Like, if I asked him what he did at the library today, he wouldn't be able to tell me anything at all. Or, if I asked him what he liked about the zoo, or a birthday party, or what his favorite color is, anything like that he wouldn't be able to answer. Does that make any sense to anyone??
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Hi Melanie,
You might want to do a search on "semantic pragmatic disorder" to see if it seems to fit what's going on with your son. Someone on the Special Blessings forum here on this board pointed me toward it the other day.
HTH,
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donnalynn wrote:
| But do keep in touch with that little alarm bell that's gone off in your mother's heart. With these kinds of things I use a "6 month rule" - I take a mental note and if it is still really bothering me in 6 months - there's been no improvement or I haven't found an explanation that makes sense - then I go about looking into the difficulty a little deeper. |
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Former speech therapist here.  I *love* the above.
When you ask him those questions, does he just stare at you blankly or does he say something but his answers are just off base? If you ask him leading questions can he do it? Like, "What did you do at Grandmas? Did you play with her dog?"
Feel free to PM me - but know I'm not licensed any more and anything I say is just one mom to another. 
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Thanks, Donna, that's so interesting about the memories, I didn't know that!
I was experimenting last night to see if he'd gotten any better, lol. He will reply, but not appropriately. Like if I say, "What did you do at Meme's house?" He'll say, "Can I go there?" Even if I ask the question several times, he'll just say that, not just about Meme's, about other places too, "Can I go?" If I ask something specific, "Did you play with the dogs?" Usually he'll still say, "Can I go?", but sometimes he'll say yes or no.
This is only my second child, the 8yo down there in the signature line is my nephew who didn't come to live with us until he was 6yo. So, my basis of experience is my oldest, who was *very* verbal very early. She was speaking in complete sentences at 18 months, and by the time she was 3, she was speaking like a little adult,  . I know that's not the norm, and I'm trying not to project her development on him, you know? But he was around a bunch of other 3yo during VBS this summer, and I was shocked at how much better the other kids were able to communicate. I do appreciate the unofficial opinion Amy, I'd love to know what you think. I do like the 6 month rule too. If we are still worried then, then I guess I should take him in to be evaluated. The thought is overwhelming right now, the 8yo has a lot of problems and sees three different therapists right now as it is!
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Theresa, oh my gosh...
I googled that disorder, and I don't know about my 4yo but that sure described my 8yo nephew to a "T". Sheesh.
As for the 4yo, I don't know...a few things seemed to fit...some of it, on the site I was on, was more symptoms in older kids, so it was hard to tell. One thing jumped out at me, something about repeating phrases adults say to him. He does this *all the time*. Not severely, like the echolalia you see in autistic kids, just kind of over time. Like I told him several nights ago to go to bed, and he said "Why?", and I said, "Because I said so." So now he says this all the time at bedtime, he comes out over and over again (which he's always done), and when I say go to bed, he says, "Because you said so?" And I have to say, "Yes, because I said so." If I don't respond appropriately, he gets upset and won't go. Geez, that sounds really weird when I type it out,,,but it's always just been one of his little "things", you know? We've always just kind of chalked these things up to being a bit slower to mature compared to my daughter.
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