My middle child, R, has recently been diagnosed with a severe global language delay at just shy of 3 years old. His receptive and expressive language is about 18mths+ behind where he should be. His speech was practically unintelligble, except for rare moments with me, and he has a slight stutter. It was thought to be because of a hearing issue but he was tested and given a Ninja hearing A+ for it so we are still puzzled as to whats caused it; esp when our other two boys have fantastic speech. He's been going to speech therapy since September 19th and has made amazing leaps and bounds. He now uses 3+ word sentences and other people are starting to understand the gist of what he is saying without him having to repeat it. His talking gets sloppy when he is over excited, tired or upset but I am happy we have progress. We're now going to be exploring the avenue of Auditory Processing disorder which could account for his language delay and a few other behavioural issues.