I want to agree with polar bear that speech and language are not the same thing, or even language and social language.
It NEVER occurred to us to take our DD to a speech pathologist because her speech was "advanced", her diction lovely, etc... Only AFTER she was diagnosed with Aspergers did we finally think to do so... Her general language skills are not much below her Verbal IQ, with one or two quite poor areas (that are typically poor in AS) but her receptive language was surprisingly poor and her social language is up to 5 years delayed. FIVE YEARS! NO ONE, not us, not school, not multiple paeds or psychologists had ever dreamed she could have a language problem as she presents so well... But it certainly explains A LOT....
