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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you mean expressive vs receptive language?
My son has an expressive language disorder. It’s been a long road but he’s doing really well in high school after intensive speech therapy through 6th-ish grade.

As for the cause…. We never really got a good answer for that.  Expressive language delays can be part of a larger autism diagnosis but not necessarily [/quote]

Yes I think that’s it. He’s higher functioning in his ability to receive language through print or verbally (mid 90s percentile) but lower functioning in his ability to write or verbally express (mid 30s percentile). I’m sorry to everybody for the encoding and decoding language — that seemed to be the language his therapist was using in our IEP meeting.

We got him checked out for autism when he was younger and it came back negative. I think I’m generally comfortable with the conclusion because he doesn’t really have other signs besides the expressive  language issues.

He had a bad tongue tie as a baby that was eventually clipped when he was three because it was inhibiting his language production. I think the current medical guidelines are doctors don’t clip tongue ties even if they look bad at birth until they create language issues which is frustrating to say the least because you’re essentially waiting for issues to develop. Maybe that’s still the cause for the delay in language production and writing.

Is this scenario I described a possible description for dyslexia that I should look into?[/quote]

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