Guest guest Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Hi , There's not a cut off age. I have two boys, the youngest has severe verbal dyspraxia and they are both deaf. My eldest's speech has only really taken off in the last 2 years. On his seventh birthday (he's eight and a half now) he said with a combination of sign and speech " when i was six i signed now I am seven i talk! " It's not uncommon for deaf children to not really develop speech until 5 years plus. I know how you feel. My youngest son has so little language and my own situation is so different because of the deafness from most other people on this list. However, I did find a family in the UK with a son a few years older than mine who as deaf and had dyspraxia. At five and a half he could understand quite a bit but his speech was just vowels and not easy to understand. Apparently, three years later, after diagnosis and special speech and language therapy he can tackle French Footballer's names! I find with my son that it gets easier as they start to make progress, but that initial time (and with mine it was years!) where progress is incredibly slow it's hard. Hopefully you will have some more responses that will reassure you. Good luck UK Mummy to 8 and Rory 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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