Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ADHD, dyslexia and a language disorder is not a rare combination of learning disabilities. Op's kid is in 6th grade so if the kid has ASD, it would have already been found.

Not sure why there is this debate about MERLD which no longer exists in the DSM vs ASD which OP's kid does not have except that there are always some MERLD posters on here who like to characterize MERLD in their younger kids as something they completely outgrow when their language issues are resolved. Language processing issues are rarely fully resolved.

We have hundreds of former members of our MERLD message boards who would disagree with you.

Research does not agree with that. Kids with language impairments improve but are not 100 percent the same as kids who are NT, even after the issues are "resolved"

Links to the research?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ADHD, dyslexia and a language disorder is not a rare combination of learning disabilities. Op's kid is in 6th grade so if the kid has ASD, it would have already been found.

Not sure why there is this debate about MERLD which no longer exists in the DSM vs ASD which OP's kid does not have except that there are always some MERLD posters on here who like to characterize MERLD in their younger kids as something they completely outgrow when their language issues are resolved. Language processing issues are rarely fully resolved.

We have hundreds of former members of our MERLD message boards who would disagree with you.

Research does not agree with that. Kids with language impairments improve but are not 100 percent the same as kids who are NT, even after the issues are "resolved"

Links to the research?

For Pete's sake, you can operate Google Scholar just as well as I can.

http://ajslp.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=1757551

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00342.x/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=55623&fileId=S0021963099005806

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-7610.00052/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890856709608182

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13682820802708098