So, I suspect Garrison has
hyperlexia. I'm having a hard time finding much about it online, which is hard to believe, because you can find something about just about anything online.
We're planning a trip to a place in Chicago to have him evaluated and get some help leveraging his unusual and precocious reading ability to push his speech along. He has difficulty conversing and I hope this will help.
Another thing I've been doing, since I'm not teaching right now, is gathering resources for helping G with speech stuff.
Testy yet Trying and
Adventures in Speech Pathology and
Jake's Journey to be a Little Man are currently open in my browser, and I'm grateful for the ideas I've found there and on Pinterest.