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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. So receptive delay generally indicates some kind of cognition issues even if it’s not autism? Its never just nothing that the child can grow out of with speech therapy etc?

My child had a significant receptive and expressive delay at 18 months. She is almost completely caught up at 3.5 after early intervention, speech and OT.

Not to be doom and gloom but my child did this too and later we found severe LD.

Anonymous wrote:Did they see an audiologist? Even if they react to noise, children can have trouble making out words if there is something going on with their ears.

Yes hearing was tested. Its perfect

Also have hearing, vision tested.

Could be speech apraxia, talk to a SLP. That typically resolves around age 3, sometimes paired with autism or other delays in my experience, sometimes not.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. So receptive delay generally indicates some kind of cognition issues even if it’s not autism? Its never just nothing that the child can grow out of with speech therapy etc?

My child had a significant receptive and expressive delay at 18 months. She is almost completely caught up at 3.5 after early intervention, speech and OT.

Did they see an audiologist? Even if they react to noise, children can have trouble making out words if there is something going on with their ears.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. So receptive delay generally indicates some kind of cognition issues even if it’s not autism? Its never just nothing that the child can grow out of with speech therapy etc?

The way our pediatrician explained it to us, is that when there is a receptive delay, it’s analogous to there being an issue with the hardware of a computer (the brain, in other words). Expressive delays are analogous to software issues with a computer.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. So receptive delay generally indicates some kind of cognition issues even if it’s not autism? Its never just nothing that the child can grow out of with speech therapy etc?

Of course there are all kinds of possibilities. My child with epilepsy did not have any more receptive issues after we medicated his seizures. Who knows. The possibilities are infinite. But, it is more likely there is a larger underlying issue.

OP here. Thanks for the responses. So receptive delay generally indicates some kind of cognition issues even if it’s not autism? Its never just nothing that the child can grow out of with speech therapy etc?

Mine.

Social communications are his strength. But the school still wanted him mislabeled with ASD "for more services."

He tests as low IQ on traditional IQ tests, and as perfectly normal on non verbal IQ tests.

Yes.

My DD is almost exactly similar to 10:08.

Mine, but he has a low IQ.

Mine. Although her profile is pretty similar to HFA. Her dx is ADHD inattentive and social communication disorder. She doesn’t have the repetitive / social etc that would give her an autism dx (but it’s close and feels sort of subjective to the evaluator).

That said her receptive language improved tremendously from where it was and today her expressive is what we’re working on.

Anyone’s kid had receptive delay that turned out not to be autism?