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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] MERLD can be an early catch-all when the symptoms don't quite add up to an autism or ADHD diagnosis. What people need to understand is that you don't observe young children and older children with the same battery of tests, and that therefore MERLD diagnoses are more frequent in younger children, and ASD/ADHD/etc diagnoses are more frequent in older children. MERLD is a symptomatic observation. It does NOT mean a 100% risk of Autism diagnosis down the road, but it certainly increases the likehood. My son was diagnosed with MERLD as a preschooler, then was given a full neuropsych in late elementary and diagnosed with severe ADHD, inattentive type. We refused the additional tests for Asperger's, but we know he has always had Aspie tendencies, and that Aspie tendencies run in my husband's family. [/quote] if you refused diagnostic tests how can you speak definitively about it?[/quote]
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