(03-22-2012, 06:11 PM)boyfromoz Wrote: 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.

I've read your posts and to me, there's signs of auditory issues. Just plain hearing isn't the same as auditory processing, and an adequate hearing test doesn't mean the brain is understanding what is coming in the ears. My son has significant auditory problems. FWIW he didn't speak at all until 26 months of age. No babble, no cooing noises, he just started speaking when he was good and ready to do so.

Do you need to make eye contact for your son to understand what you say? Can he tolerate background noise (radio, TV) in the home? does the brightness of the light in the room affect his ability to understand you? (that makes a big difference to my son at times).

Push for testing for auditory processing problems, which is not a hearing test and has to be done by a tech specially trained in the subject.