Originally Posted by shel90

Hearing children who have mild cases of Asper's, Austism, or just simply late bloomers.

Back the claim up? Why do u need me to back it up? If u don't believe me, that's fine. However, I can't back it up with Internet resources cuz I am using my pager and kinda hard to open another window but if u google language delays in children I am sure plenty of websites will come up. My son is a perfect example to back my claim up so if nobody wants to believe me, I don't really give a damn. If people want to blame my deafness for his spoken language delays, by all means they can. Again, I don't care.

We don't know why he is delayed in spoken language..sometimes kids r just late bloomers and catch up later. My whole point is that in some cases, it doesn't matter if the parents r deaf with no oral skills or hearing with perfect spoken English, the hearing children end up with spoken language delays regardless due to other factors.. Important that the parents catch it early.

Because my son is building a strong language base with ASL, Iam not worried about his language development being delayed. His spoken language will catch up. If not by the age of 5, then I will have to take him to get evaulated to see if he has other conditions preventing his spoken language development. I know that I am doing something about it hence the speech therapist's home visits.

At the end, I know it is not because of my deafness that affected his spoken language development.