Can someone please explain?

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My son and I are off to his speach therapy assesment today(this is part of his autism assessment)
I asked his teacher today about his language skills etc in class. She said He's fine although (yep here we go again) he is always fine but there is always a but. She says he has problems with lateral words
word concepts. What does this mean does anyone know. His vocab is fantastic, he spoke very young. He has however as of late started to ask what certain words mean, these are words that he has been using for years.
He is 9 in 2 weeks.
Thanks in advance.

Did the teacher mean literal words?

Literal interpretation of language means people interpret literally what you mean.

For example, if someone said, "Pull up your socks", a literal interpretation would be pulling your socks up. Whereas the interpretation most people would make is: work harder, apply yourself

I hope that makes sense.

I know one day I was cross at one of my sons withs Asperger's. He was taking forever to get dressed for school and I was frustrated. I yelled at him, "Pull your finger out and go and get dressed!". He innocently looked at me and said, "Pull my finger out from where? It's not stuck anywhere!"

Helen

Well its posible she meant creative and abstract words, given the context she was most likely referring to lateraly pronounced words. Those are words you say while breathing on both sides of your tongue

For example the sound \l\ is lateral. Try saying lull paying attention to how your breath moves over your tongue - you'll feel it on both sides of your tongue at both the beginning and end of the word.

Maybe she met metaphors or the other uses of words not based on their definitions, or different ways of saying words that change the meaning. If this is the case, it would make sence for an aspie. We tend to be very literal, and even though we have high verbal IQs we has virtually no natural understanding of nonverbal communication.