Lack of understanding or something else?

My child has significant communication and speech delay. He has learnt so much but at time I wonder is it lack of understanding or is there something else

He can learn, but if went outside to do a scavenger hunt of all things green, he doesn't understand why he's outside. Even though I explain, that knowledge isn't there. The same if we where to go outside to get flowers that understanding isn't there

Would it be because he can't talk and understand what anything is, or would there be something else??

Any help??

aidie over 4 years ago in reply to LukaFenir

also the book "Fall down 7 steps get up eight" was written character by character using a letter board by non-verbal autistic

www.amazon.co.uk/.../1444799088
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LukaFenir over 4 years ago in reply to NAS69965

AAC is Alternative and Augmented Communication, strategies and tools that nonspeaking or partially-speaking people use to communicate. This can be low-tech like letter-boards or written word or high-tech like text-to-speech or symbol apps. Speech therapists can teach the methods that suits the individual.

The creators of this film use AAC to communicate

https://youtu.be/H7dca7U7GI8
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NAS69965 over 4 years ago in reply to LukaFenir

What is aac

He communicates by making sounds or if he knows the word says it.

However, he is very independent. Knows what he wants knows how to get it
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LukaFenir over 4 years ago

Does he use AAC or prefer to comunicate in other ways? Maybe he can express whether he's confused about something.
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Dawn over 4 years ago

Talk to your GP or health visitor. It could be autism. It could be his hearing. It could be all manner of intellectual or language problems, but you need to know what it is now.
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aidie over 4 years ago

Only a qualified psychologist would be able to answer properly this question about understanding within context. This forum only contains non-qualified people.
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Daniel over 4 years ago

There's multiple possibilities for this, lack of understanding is likely at times but not always, especially if you've taught him enough times that suit his needs.

If this lack of understanding always occurs when an activity changes into another it can be a simple refusal. The Autistic mind attends the details of things so being more specific might help. If you say gather green things he may be wondering which green things, there's lots of green things. The same with flowers, just saying flowers he might be wondering which flowers.

Autistic people tend to be fixated on what they're interested in making attention shifting from one activity to another difficult because they're still fixated on the previous one.

To these other activities connect them to his interest, like make a scavenger hunt for green things and what he's interested in.
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