Mild receptive language delay, no expressive language delay

[Anonymous]

I'm glad you got this diagnosis. My DD's speech was atypical at that age and I brought her in to Child Find and because she had all the sounds required, they said she was fine. Turns out she had a pretty significant receptive delay that wasn't diagnosed until we started pursuing other diagnoses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was my DS, but he was more extreme.

He scored near the bottom in receptive language but just below average in expressive. We did not get him tested until near the end of Kindergarten and he started language therapy in first. The SLP said essentially that he was somehow able to make the most of the language he was receiving. He was later dx'ed with an auditory processing disorder, possibly due to multiple ear infections.

We had to switch therapists as he entered second grade and the new therapist said that based on his scores alone she would have fully expected he would not be able to read. But he was able to and she said we should be down on our knees every night thanking God for his incredibly gifted first grade teacher.

Based on my experience, if you have any question at all get her into language therapy. All these therapies are done much easier the younger the child--they get more resistant as they get older. We did three years of therapy, but where we really saw the advances were with Fast Forward, which can be really helpful with children with certain types of auditory processing disorders.

Thank you, this is very helpful. (OP here).

Quick question: did you have a hunch that his receptive language was delayed? (It came as a huge surprise to me, since DD has never had issues following directions or given us any clue that she doesn't understand something.)

Admitting my utter cluelessness with my first child, no. I did note that I could, for example, discuss Christmas presents with someone while he was playing in the same room and be quite confident he was picking up nothing. That should have been a huge clue, but I was pretty laid back and simply thought it was normal variation.

His kindergarten teacher raised the possibility of a language problem with me and urged me to get him tested as quickly as possible, not waiting for the school machinery to grind away. She got us in with an SLP she knew at Children's.