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| Fri, 05-25-2007 - 1:10am |
I posted this last night on the speech board but so far no one has visited it. So I think I will ask you guys.
I will copy and paste to make it easier....
He is very articulate (had speech in 3rd and 4th grade) but I have always noticed that the way he talks is so different than other kids I know.
Examples....
Has done this since he was little... would refuse to talk during certain times. Especially when I asked him a question and he couldn't answer. He would just shut down, and not talk. He would have a frustrated look on his face and say "I don't want to talk now" He would even do this when I asked him what his favorite part of his day was when I picked him up from school. It was such a weird response. He would obviously be very frustrated at the time too.
He did this with teachers too.
When he has to pull a lot of information out of his head to talk to me, he stutters/stammers/does odd pauses, mixes up his words. Sometimes I can't even understand what he's trying to say. If I need more detail, I just can't get it out of him and he ends up frustrated and says "forget about it" and is very frustrated again.
I have never noticed that he gets his pronouns mixed up tho.
There are times I notice I tell him something, but then find out eventually he just didn't "get it"
Usually short sentences you don't notice, its when more info is needed he has problems.
At first I thought of Pragmatic speech, but then someone mentioned Auditory processing problems.
I just wanna know why he does this? What do you call this?????? I have looked up symptons for both prag speech and auditory processing and I get confused. he sorta fits both. I am going crazy on what this is called?\
Lainie

Hi Lainie,
My son is the same way too. Yesterday, he had a real bad day at music. When we picked him for his DOc. appt. he looked upset. So I asked and he said " I really don't want to talk about it". Then I knew he is not able to say it. So I broke it down as to
1) what time it happened
2) what where you doing
3) What did the teacher say and so. OUT came the details. It looks like when it was Sravan's turn to play xylephone, a very picky music teacher and very uncordinated boy, it did not come out correctly. So, according to Sravan, she said everyone in the class is getting O (outstanding) except one (S-) and that person knows about it. Thats it, he floored and eventually pulled himself together and came back to class.
Lots of times I get "forget about it". We are trying to work with him on this. I have signed for summer speech sessions with Michelle Garcia and this would be one of my concerns that I am going to raise with her.
take care,
Anandhi
Lainie - How old is your son now?
That sounds so similar to my son. He was evaluated to see if he needed speech way back at the beginning of kindergarten because he stuttered. The stuttering resolved itself shortly thereafter, so we all agreed not to send him to speech.
He just finished first grade, and he definitely has a stammering problem. It just seems like he has such a hard time getting the words out of his mouth.
I hope you got some good responses, so I can borrow them.
At his terrible, terrible IEP last week, the speech therapist found NOTHING. I then said well what about when he's talking like this? I explained like I did in this thread. I said its very choppy, not smooth. Alot of weird pauses and such. It doesn't sound like an average kid.
The team came up with "Well we think he must be thinking so hard to pull out the big words he pulls out"
Well I didn't think to say this (cuz that dang meeting went to fast) that he does this whether he uses really big words or not....
I swear I'm about to wear a hidden microphone just to show them what I mean!
Lainie
Hi Robin,
He's 11. He had speech for articulation in 3rd to 4th grade. The old speech teacher never mentioned this, but then again he was probably using one word after another practicing, and not so much having a big convo with her, but if they were I can't for the life of me understand why no one has never noticed this?????
I have other friends and family notice this, but no one in the school systems does....
I never said much about this, as this is the way he has always talked and I got so used to it....
Lainie,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
I think both my kids have pragmatic speech issues, but I only think only DD has significant auditory processing difficulties.
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here is that article I promised BTW (at least, I think this is the one)
http://groups.msn.com/TheAutismHomePage/echolaliafacts.msnw
-Paula
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Okay, starting to understand a bit more, but with the way you described your children its like Chris is like Peter with the prag speech thing (Chris was a late talker too but started at 2-3)
Your DD sounds like Nicholas, who spoke on time but you couldn't understand him because of all the substitute sounds with speech. He would say Pleaner, instead of Cleaner.
Anyway, its bugging me because the school said no prag speech problems. I don't think they tested deep enough... So I thought is it something else???
I will look at your next link hon. Thanks :)
Lainie