We cannot be leading here and provide diagnostic information. It is the responsibility of the parents and human caregivers to use existing knowledge to sort out ongoing issues and needs for young children who do not have the life experience to understand what they are dealing with, nor will they know how to cope with difficulty. There is an ongoing cognitive delay that is being engineered to happen. That does not mean there is nothing that can be done. As with any difficulty in performance, there are opportunities for him to do better with encouragement, guidance, and support through getting extra help. How that is done will determine to what extent it is truly a benefit. Such efforts need to be matter-of-fact and positive and done carefully to avoid telegraphing to the child they are substandard. Those kinds of judgments can be crushing. Even just loose talk around the child may be picked up and even misunderstood and greatly magnified in the child's thinking, far beyond what parents would expect, simply wanting to be practical and take the bull by the horns, so to speak, to work on a problem. These issues are in the hands of the family more so than anything else. You cannot change what the interlopers might do, and we have difficulty with that as well, given we have constraints under the rules of engagement.
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