'Love you mum': Seven-year-old's heart-stopping first words
It was seven years in the making, but Tait Sherman's mother was stunned to hear her son's heart-warming first words.
Tait Sherman suffers from bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (BPP) - a rare neurological disorder where despite knowing what he wants to say, his mouth cannot create the sounds.
“It was the most amazing moment," Reama Sherman told The Mirror . "To not be able to communicate with someone that you love most in the world, and not be able to say those words that connect you is just heartbreaking."
“We would always use sign language to say ‘I love you’ but one day when I was putting Tait to bed, he pulled me in to hug him and said the words ‘uv you’."
Reama, 40, and her family struggled for a year-and-a-half to find the proper care for Tait, who was locked in silent world.
It wasn't until he was four-and-a-half that they received a proper diagnosis, and after a battle with the local council he started to receive the treatment he so desperately needed.
It's believed Tait and mother Reama had been reading the top-selling children’s book 'Guess How Much I Love You?' at the time.
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