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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine was diagnosed with that really young and was a late talker. We also pushed for an autism diagnosis. Most doctors tread lightly with that and I am not looking to open up pandora's box with all the MERLD parents being furious to imply autism and MERLD present and are neurologically similar. Doesn't matter. You know what matters? Autism got us tons of services. We were also told services would be the same for both DX, but autism gets more. We tried ABA and it was not a match, but did lots of ST, OT, etc.

Fast forward to age 3 he started reading on his own-dx: hyperlexia.

Fast forward to late elementary. He is and has been since starting school, mainstreamed completely with an IEP. He has friends. He does well at school with support as needed. He is happy. He has a strong IQ, but you would not have known that when he bombed his early intervention testing and then bombed his testing again at age 4. He still has language processing issues, but is within the average range as per testing for receptive and expressive.

There I plenty of hope. Intervention is key. Every child is different, but every child can meet their own potential with help.[/quote]

Learning letter yet not being able to talk started it as a concern for us. Autism and hypermedia has been ruled out as far as I can tell.

Apraxia is on our radar but he doesn’t seem to fit the symptoms. He doesn’t fit in one box :/

To the PP- I haven’t heard of leap. Pep is the preschool program, I haven’t heard of other options we can consider at this point (maybe it’s a county thing? We could be from different areas)  I am new to all of this! Just trying to navigate as best I can. I appreciate all the input thus far![/quote]

If they put rule out autism or r/o autism, it means they need more info to rule it out, not that it has been ruled out, bur regardless, you will see regardless of diagnosis plenty of kids benefit from the same things regardless of diagnosis. Any group intervention always had kids with varying issues.

We did special needs non-categorical preschool in the public school and a private inclusive preschool. I have heard of LEAP. It's a program at UMD and I think it is run by their speech therapy department. Have only heard good things.

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