Truck and Barter

Special thanks to Paul (and Ian) for taking charge of T&B while I slack off quite a bit. My life has focused around my career, which I cannot write about, and my son, who has a considerable speech delay. He has what the experts call "specific language impairment", meaning that with current tools and tests we cannot identify any physiological reason for his silence. He's not autistic, or even on the spectrum; he's not developmentally disabled, besides the usual difficulties one would expect of a 2.5 year old child unable to join together many words. He just doesn't talk much at all, though what he does say, he says rather clearly.

All of which is a long-winded way of pointing to my new blog dedicated to that childhood speech delay. For quite some time, I've been reading the academic literature on childhood speech delay; my brain's full of the stuff, and now's the time to change the balance of trade -- remaking the imported raw material into exports, as it were.

My particular concern is laying out how SLI cases are identified, and how they are treated. I'll also look at the costs and benefits of such "intervention". I don't know if I'll keep writing to the blog or not, but given that I've now linked to it, I'll be embarassed not to.

*** Please note that this research is on my own time, and paid for with my own dime; it is unaffiliated with my employer, for whom I have not done any other research on intervention. ***