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Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is a genetic link to speech, language and articulation delay. My son could only make 2 of more than 60 phoenetic sounds at age 2.5. He was "talking", but no one could understand him. Even "mama" was unclear and "dada" was really unintelligible. He began therapy with a speech pathologist at 2.5, and he finally stopped seeing her at age 8. However, he still stutters today (he's 35), and he still has trouble with his speech if he is tired (repeating words, and unable to get the words out). There seemed to be some motor-link issue between his brain and his muscles (tongue and mouth). He was diagnosed with aphasia (similar to stroke patients), but it was ischemic. He had not suffered a post-birth head trauma or brain injury. He had a minimal hearing loss. There was no family history of this type of delay on either side. He has a very high IQ (especially in math), but he was diagnosed with ADD. He attended a private school for kids with learning differences, and was an honor student. He has gone on to become very succcessful. However....
Now my almost 3 year old grandson seems to have the same disorder. Is there a genetic link? My grandson has not had any type of brain injury or head trauma, either. He seems very aware of what is going on around him, and like my son, strings sounds together into sentences, but they are unintelligible. We are looking for answers to this troubling issue.
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Hello,
I am sorry I didn't respond sooner. I tend to look just at the language threads. And then someone put several inappropriate posts on the site that blocked the view to your thread until they were removed.
Yes, certainly, speech-language disorders can have a genetic component/can run in families. Your son may want to have your grandson evaluated by a geneticist if he wants to know more about this.
You are right--an intelligent person can have speech-language difficulties. Unintelligible speech is not directly reflective of intelligence (there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the two.)
Therapy may be different now for your grandson than it was when your son was the same age. I hope your grandson is working with an SLP with experience who has had success working with young children who have severe to profound speech production difficulty. It sounds like it may be developmental apraxia of speech from what you have described.
Best wishes.
Mary Lou
Mary Lou B. Johnson, M.S.,CCC-SLP
http://www.helpyourchildspeak.com
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Hello when I was a kid I studdered and mis pronounce several words my parents never did anything about it and everything fixed itself as I got older my son age 3 now has most likely a speech delay but I wonder at times if it can be anything else I am waiting to get him evaluated he can say 2 words together working on 3 words today I showed him pictures and ask him what it is for car he said dar, shoes he said douse, hat he said hut dog he said dag flower he said awer for pinguin he said awin for umbrella he said abra other words like cat, apple. mommy, daddy ,dice ,yes, green ,pants ,he pronounces very well I wonder if this could be apraxia and what does SLP stand for sorry I am a bit new to all of this
my 3 year old has a speech delay http://www.meetup.com/Kids-withDevelopmental-Delay-Ages-2-to-5/
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Language delay is a communication disorder, a category that includes a wide variety of speech, language, and hearing impairments. The milestones of language development, including the onset of babbling and a child's first words and sentences, normally occur within approximate age ranges. However, individual children vary enormously regarding the exact age at which each milestone is reached. There also are different styles of language development. Most children have acquired good verbal communication by the age of three. But one child may be wordless until the age of two and a half and then immediately start talking in three-word sentences. Another child might have several words at ten months but add very few additional words over the following year. Other children start talking at about 12 months and progress steadily.
Language delay usually becomes apparent during infancy or early childhood. Any delay in general development usually causes language delay. Children with language delay may acquire language skills in the usual progression but at a much slower rate, so that their language development may be equivalent to a normally developing child of a much younger chronological age. Maturation delay, also called developmental language delay, is one of the most common types of language delay. Children with a maturation delay may be referred to as "late talkers" or "late bloomers." Maturation delays frequently run in families.
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