My younger sister had a language disorder, which impacted on her learning and she ended up with learning and social difficulties. At 10 years old she still dressed, spoke, and played like a 6 year old. She was completely mute, apart from unidentifiable gurgling, until she was 4.
She is now 15, turning 16 on the 14th, she is my best friend and totally 'normal' for want of a better word. She is coming top of her classes, apart from in french and german, but she is still doing both a GCSE on the foundation tier. She's fantastic, and probably going to go on to cure cancer or something similar.
She went to a school for children with learning and social difficulties until she hit year 5, when she went into mainstream. She struggled, and was bullied by some of her classmates. The bullying continued until around year 8, when she started really catching up and accelerating in all areas. And developed scathing comebacks and a kickass sense of humour!! She's so quick witted now it's untrue!!
There is alot of hope out there ladies
My Mum thought she would never speak... then she would never learn basic commands... then she would never be able to do basic math... then she would never go to a mainstream school... now they are saving her university fund.
There is a really good, easy way to describe language disorders. It's a broad field that can impact alot of areas, but I was brought up being told;
Imagine your brain is made up of 26 filing cabinets, each of these cabinets is assigned a letter and they are organised alphabetically. When you hear the word 'Apple' your brain hears the word, runs along and files it under 'A'. Then you want to say apple, and your brain checks in the A cabinet, finds it easily, and says it.
Well in Sarahs* brain, the cabinets are all jumbled up and in the wrong places. When Sarah hears the word 'Apple' her brain runs along... and can't remember which cabinet to put it in. Sarahs brain files 'Apple' in the 'Q' cabinet. Sarah then wants to say 'Apple' and can't find where it is, because everything is so messy. Sarah ends up so confused, she ends up making noises and pointing instead.
Sorry it's explained really childishly, but her disorder was spotted when she was 2 years old, when I was 6, so it was explained to me in a childlike manner! Hope it helps anyway, not very scientific lol but might help you get your head around it? Sorry your going through this at the moment x