His Struggle

I completed a sample of my son's language. I'm going to analyse it when I get to work on Monday. But I am almost afraid to. It is really terrible. His mind is racing at all times. He don't take a break. None stop. Here is an example:

Bug:  Mama, what eat you want?
Me: What eat you want?
Bug: Goldfish, mama

Even when I repeated what he said to me, there was not attempt to self correct. I continued to record his utterances and most of them were backwards like that. He has sensory issues and will not take risks like normal boys. He just runs, but he is afraid to jump or do daring things. I don't know what happened to him. His language was on track until about a year ago. I truly believe that that 3 1/2 week sickness may have set him back some how. We did all we knew to do. He went to Lebonheur 3 times and to his doctor's office.  I am going to make a neurological appointment on Monday. We have got to get to the bottom of this.

My husband and I are losing sleep trying to see what went wrong. I have been formally and informally evaluating Bug since the day he was born and I believe that I am correct in saying that I started to notice a difference a few months after his sickness and I tested him in January 2011 and had below average results.

We took him to the local school system for an evaluation, but his scores were not low enough to qualify for services. So there is nothing wrong with his intelligence or cognitive abilities, but as a SLP, I know that language difficulties are sometimes just the tip of the neurological iceberg.