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[quote=Anonymous]Having a down day and would love some positive stories about speech delay recovery in the 4 to 7 year old set, regardless of diagnosis.

My 4-year-old DD will be 5 around Halloween and is slowly catching up expressively, although she is nowhere near her peer group yet.  No ASD diagnosis, but there is a strong family history for ADHD-inattentive, and at least one sibling and one parent has it (my DH).  Her oldest sibling has social anxiety, and she seems to be high-anxiety as well, although nothing official yet.  No delays in cognitive or receptive speech (follows directions extremely well, listens to us, comes when called, answers to her name, etc.).  We will be doing more evaluations in the fall, for now she is signed up for preschool.

I just keep having this feeling, however irrational, that she is going to turn 5 years old and that will be it, no more progress.  You just don't hear about 5 year olds who aren't talking up a storm, and I'm ridiculously feeling like she must be the only one.  I have been waiting so long for her to talk, I'm beginning to fear it will never happen.  Rationally, I know that she is now up to three- and four-word sentences, but if she had her way all the time, she would always fall back on the one-word answer.  She is a classic introvert, and will engage when she feels like it, but is laughing and happy most of the time.  She talks more to her siblings when my DH and I are nowhere in sight.

Be kind if you respond.  I am the rock in the family, but today I just don't feel like holding it together and need some sort of encouragement.  [/quote]

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