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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one said the symptoms don't exist. I said the diagnostic category doesn't exist in the DSM-V. (Which you just said.) MERLD is like Asperger's. It's a handy label to describe a group of symptoms for lay people, but as a diagnostic category in the US, it is not correct. It is not used because it was not functionally useful. [/quote] The term Asperger's is helpful as it describes a grouping of kids with very specific traits, including being highly verbal. MERLD is helpful as it means a child has both expressive and receptive language issues. It is very functionally useful, just maybe not to your child specifically.[/quote]
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