Language & Autism

Our son did not learn to talk early, and for years after he said his first word (many years) his syntax was odd enough to make his speech barely intelligible to most people.   Though it has improved a lot, he still gets "tangled' sometimes, and often "mazes" (repeating parts of a sentence several times.)   It's clear to me that he's constructing the sentences in chunks, and has to repeat every chunk to get the whole thing out at the end (like those songs where you have to repeat a key part of pr