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Hi Violet, I don't believe talking (or not talking) is the issue. What you don't want him to do is practice particular sounds.
Imagine you have a pebble in your boot and can't remove it right away...you still need to walk, so you will compensate for the problem by applying pressure to a different side/front/back of your foot to avoid the pebble. Since you know you can eventually remove the pebble, you wouldn't want to start practicing walking in a way to avoid the pebble because you'll habitualize that pattern.
This is why I asked if the original poster was working on speech a lot, since it would take a good amount of direct practice to start compensating for sounds in a new language enough to do it consistently.
As I mentioned earlier, I wouldn't work on any speech until after surgery if a child is very young & will have surgery soon. Of course you can still work on Language/Communication without the remediation of specific sounds.
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