As Edward's speech gets clearer especially on the videos you all see of him enjoying talking about numbers or planets, spelling or states and capitals it probably makes you wonder why I say Edward is partially verbal....especially to those patient parents just wanting to hear just one word and any word will do.
Some could even call this regression.... sorry I have not witnessed regression.   I love this video because it shows Edward just having fun and enjoying listening to his voice.  I consider it voice exercises. :-)

Edward has come so far in speech and language.... Just that little bit more and he will be fluent.  I am still crossing fingers that it comes before he starts school next year.
He tries so very hard.  For those having trouble understanding asd especially the lack of language and at the same time seems verbal, I can only liken it to learning a new languages by learning only by single words and phrases only and the whole thing starts making a ton more sense.
I know that merci means thank you in French right?  And I know that " Como tale vous" means how are you? in English.  But I don't know how the French put sentences together vous I think may mean you .....and one day I may be able to speak French fluently..... But not right now.
What people find difficult is that even though Edward is amazing at decoding individual characters and words in languages he is finding real difficulty in learning to construct his own sentences....he is learning each sentence in context instead.