Tom was tested at having a receptive language at 1 - 2 % percentile (in other words 98 - 99% of children his age have better verbal understanding) and an expressive language level of 30% percentile. From my own memories I never had any real trouble understanding, though because I rarely asked about things I would spend years presuming simple things that turned out to be wrong. I do have clear memories of people asking me to do simple things, like placing my hand on a supermarket's checkout belt and I had perfect understanding and wanted to do so, but I was unable to talk or make my hands move. So I always bear this in mind when talking to Tom, that just because he doesn't appear to understand that doesn't mean he doesn't.I also tested as having expressive far ahead of receptive. It might make no sense, but it has to do with memorizing the sounds of words without getting the meaning.
WOW! It seem the only consistant thing about asd is its inconsistancy!
It seems that a lot of kids are having a better response to speech therapy than mine. I'm glad he now has a new one with more experience with asd.
lalloo75-I'll be sure to look for you on the news. Maybe I'll be there too.I read somewhere (Do not remember where) that when a typical kid acquires 150-200 receptive words, he/she starts speaking. That was the case for my ASD son too. He now has about 30-400 receptive and about 130-150 expressive words.[QUOTE=fred]
Yes, absolutely! In most kids receptive language trails expressive anyways, so it's not surprising he understands more than he can say. Be careful what you say around him ;)
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Yes, we have learned that the hard way and so has his teachers. He loves going places and school field trips as he is obsessed with the big yellow school bus. They were talking about an upcoming field trip in front of him. He went and found the field trip pecs card added it to his schedule then pulled it off and lined up at the door. It was great. Well except the huge meltdown that resulted when he was told no. That another thing about him. He knows where the schedule picture are kept in class and will add things to his schedule that he want to do. His teachers won't hide the pics. I guess because if he was verbal he could ask to do these things and would have to be told no. So I guess him trying to control his schedule is the same.
Holly, that is great that your son responded so well to speech therapy. I'm sorry that your daughters processing delay was not detected until now. Aren't teachers supposed to be on the look out for these things? I have a 10 year old daughter so I know that has got to be hard for her to deal with in school. The best of luck to her. I hope they are giving her all the help she needs now.
There has been alot of talk about speech/communication so I wanted to ask a question about receptive language. One of the areas that my son is making progress is receptive language. When he was 3 it seemed like he did not understand much of what we said. But in the last 6-8 months his receptive language has been increasing. For example when I went to pick him up from ESY today someone told him I was waiting for him. He immediately look up and out the door for me with a big smile on his face and went to get his time to go home pic from his schedule and came to me. I still can't tell him to go to another room and get an object and bring it to me but I can say, "your car is in your room let's go get it" and will take my hand and lead me to his room and get his Lighting Mcqueen car.
That is a positive sign right?
My just turned 3 year old was severely delayed in both receptive and expressive (by 50%) at 14 months. After starting speech therapy his receptive caught up very, very quickly but his expressive went nowhere
It is a very good sign that your ds's receptive skills are getting better. After all, you can talk till the cow's come home, but if you don't understand what is being said to you, what's the point?
About 3-4 months ago my son was a little over 2 and he had a light bulb moment- he started labeling everything if we would ask him things like where is the ball? Which item can you eat, and show him a picture of an apple, etc. We had NO idea that he understood so much- but he seems to understand so much more than a typical 2 year old, but communicated verbally like a 9-12 month old.
ANY form of understanding is great- the receptive however is very important because people can learn to communicate through PECS, speech, signs, etc. Speaking is not the only way to get your points across.
Yes, absolutely! In most kids receptive language trails expressive anyways, so it's not surprising he understands more than he can say. Be careful what you say around him ;)
My girls test as having better expressive language than receptive (which makes no sense to me, but that's autism) - but I'm not so sure that's not just an artifact of the testing procedure - they seem to understand more than they say, too.
Anyway - great news - I'm happy for you! Once communication is established, things get so much easier.
My son had both expressive and receptive language disorder--found at 3.5y. Within 1 year of SLP, the receptive was up to normal. Expressive was still delayed until this past year and he's almost at the low end of normal (7.5y)
My 11y dd---we just found out she had a receptive-processing delay. I wish we had found out years ago!! Now she has severe probs with school (dyslexia).