Dylan Hargreaves , 4, has a vocabulary of only 10, one-syllable words after being diagnosed with severe learning difficulties since three years ago. But the autistic boy is now being helped to talk by a pet macaw his mother received as a gift from her partner last year. From Lancashire TelegraphIf interested, here is a touched video compilation named A World Where Autisc Children LiveHis parents have been amazed by his progress after he began listening to his mother teaching the family's pet bird, Barney.
For as Michelle, 33, of Broughton Close, Blackburn, tells the bird a new word, Dylan has started to say it too.
He has already learned how to say ta' and bye' through listening to the macaw in the last few months.
And now his parents believe he is just days away from saying his first two-syllable word - Barney!
She said: "Every time I gave the bird something to say Dylan started trying to say the same thing.
"I think it's because the bird says it slower than me, which helps Dylan to understand it better.
"He has changed my life and Dylan's because before he would not even have attempted words with two syllables."
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