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My 8 yr. old diagnosed with Mixed Expressive Receptive Language Disorder....

Katrina - posted on 12/11/2010 ( 3 moms have responded )

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My 8 year old daughter has been through the ringer as far as being diagnosed with different disabilities. She didn't quite meet all of the autism spectrum red flags. Her teacher wanted her diagnosed as mentally retarded. And another specialist said it was PDD-NOS. Now at the age of 8 she has Mixed Expressive Receptive Language Disorder. It took her longer to talk, she has always suffered with ear problems. She has alot of speech therapy at school and outside from school. I see some progress with her verbal skills along with her social skills and educational abilities. I have tried to research this condition and would love to be able to speak with anyone that has a child with the same thing. I don't understand what the causes are, and what it will be like for her as an adult. Anyone that can offer any sort of info and support for me and my little girl would be a true blessing.

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Kat - posted on 12/14/2010

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My son has had the same kind of ringer. He tiptoes around the Autism diagnosis but never jumps fully into the spectrum what we finally found out, thanks to an astute speech therapist is that he has Sensory Processing Disorder. An OT evaluated him and realized that although he can hear fine, passes all hearing tests, he can't process the sounds properly which makes his speech delay. He gets words mixed up a lot or deletes sounds from words because his brain doesn't process the sounds correctly. On top of that the symptoms he was displaying causing autism like behaviors were related to other sensory issues he was dealing with. I would recommend going to see an OT for an evaluation. My son just had his OT diagnosis and he is about to turn ten so I understand the frustration. Try picking up a copy of Out of Sync Child and see if anything in there relates to your little girl. You maybe suprised by what you find.

Kathryn

Deborah - posted on 12/14/2010

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I agree with Danielle - that's what I was going to say. Where a constellation of different anomalies are present, the statistical likelihood is that there is a genetic cause. The second most common genetic disorder after Down syndrome is Velo-cardio-facial syndrome (aka DiGeorge syndrome). Kids have 20-30 symptoms of a possible 190+. More infor at www.vcfsef.org and www.vcfstexas.com. One has to be tested for a microdeletion of the 22nd chromosome; Danielle's son has a microdeletion too. I'd request a microdeletion panel be done. Finding a genetic cause will lead you to more quickly identify issues and find tried approaches to address issues. Good luck!

Danielle - posted on 12/11/2010

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has your daugther had any gene testing? as my son has expressive & receptive language delays PDD-NOS, speech delays ,golbal deveolpmental delays- which he is 2 years behind hes peers & poor musle tone.I had gene testing & found out my son has a rare micro deletion called 2p16.3 also called NRXN1 syndrome which is a gene for brain deveolpment & can vary delays! the varity is hugh! MY advice is to see a geneticist, tell them everything & get your child checked out! good luck

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