A six-year-old boy spoke for the first time after discovering his tie.

Mason Motz's parents had almost given up hope of having regular conversations with their six-year-old son.

The Texas boy had been diagnosed with Sotos Syndrome, a genetic disorder causing learning disabilities, and had also suffered a cerebral aneurysm at the age of 10 days.

But that still does not fully explain why their school-aged son can barely speak.

"Nothing really worked," said his mother Meredith Interior Edition. "He probably had a vocabulary of five words and we were looking for alternative means of communication."

Then, during a visit to a regular dentist in April 2017 (for which they had had trouble settling in Mason), their world had completely changed. A few hours after leaving the office, their son uttered complete sentences.

As Mason's father and mother learned that day, Mason suffered from a tie since birth. In these conditions, the tongue does not separate properly from the bottom of the mouth in utero and limits the movements of the language.

It was a condition that the doctors and speech therapists that the family had seen since the birth of Mason had not noticed.

Dentist dentist Amy Ludeman-Lazar discovered the language link and immediately asked Mason's parents if she could perform the 10-second procedure to cut the tongue out of the boy's mouth with a laser.

After a quick Google search, they agreed and were shocked by the results.

"We brought him home that night, and then he started talking about" I'm hungry, I'm thirsty. Can we watch a movie? Said Meredith.

"It's like, blowing our minds with these complete sentences for the first time, within seven or eight hours of returning home."

Why Mason's vocabulary – formerly that of a year – had more than doubled in less than a day, the little boy still had a lot to catch up with.

He is now speaking at a four-year level, but experts told Meredith that he would speak at the same level as his peers at the age of 13. New York Times reports.

The procedure also improved Mason's sleep and allowed him to eat without choking on a regular basis.

For Meredith, it must be remembered that parents must listen to their "instinct" about their child's health.

"If you think something is going on, the doctors can tell you one thing, but keep looking and keep trying because you're usually right. You know your child best. "

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