daydream my nephew who is now 13 was diagnosed with the same thing, he had intensive speech therapy and is speaking well now, and is also doing well at school, he still has some difficulties but on the whole it is not noticeable.

I must confess I was one of the people that told my sister not to worry that he would talk when he was ready so felt a bit bad when I found out he had a problem.  Even though my sister got frustrated with the comments she realises they were said in good faith as she was sufferring from guilty mum syndrome and we were trying to make her feel better.  She did not have my nephew until she was 44 so thought it was her fault because she was a bad mum.