Silent Sam

Sam had his appointment up at York Hospital this morning; the consultant concluded that he does have verbal dyspraxia, but is showing no other signs of dyspraxia; in fact, his fine motor control is excellent. He did well on all the tests that she put him through, performing to age 3 standard in some of them, and to age 4 in the rest; this confirmed what Doug and I already knew - that Sam might not talk, but he's all there with his lemondrops and then some :)

So he doesn't need to see the consultant in clinic again; it can be managed through Speech Therapy and liaising with the Child Development Unit - basically, what we've doing since last July. His speech is at age 15 months standard, so he's got quite a lot of catching up to do, but just having made our concerns known at an early stage means that we're ahead of the game when it comes to getting it treated.

Onward and upward.