Hi Beck,

Thank you for your quick reply. My son does have a couple of hundred words. I'm sorry for not being more specific. He finds it hard to organise a sentence. He can understand the familiar things I say each day and possibly a little more. It seems to me like he has problems processing the whole short sentence. He seems to have a good long term memory, but not such a good short term one. He can say a lot more than he can understand, which they say is very unusual for a language disorder.

We have had his hearing tested and whilst it was difficult for them to complete the test because he couldn't understand the instructions, they determined that he had good enough hearing not to have a problem with speech.

We have bought him an IPAD which he loves to use and can master most of the age appropriate games once I've shown him what to do. The instructions on his own would be difficult for him to comprehend.

The reason all paeds have ruled him out for Autism to date is because he shows empathy, has imaginative play, social when very familiar with people and no stand out repetitive behaviour. However, he is starting to want a little more alone time when he has had enough of things.

Kindest regards