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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I've only gone to really good providers - which is not happenstance but research and careful selection - but no provider has ever suggested my kid with language issues has ASD. Is that an issue usually when the issues are severe? Why are you so stressed about this, OP? If it is not ASD, your kid is not going to get that diagnosis. There are other indicators. [/quote]

Same here. I posted up thread that my DD was diagnosed with MERLD and there has never been even the slightest suggestion of ASD.  Also the idea that speech therapy is "the same" for both diagnoses is silly. I should hope that speech therapy is not "the same" for any two children, ever.

Btw, to the poster who is criticizing someone and saying "you sound like you have OCD" - that's not cool either. And you clearly have no idea what OCD actually is...[/quote]

Yes, many kids with ASD get the same speech therapy techniques as those with ASD. You are right that it varies by individual, not by diagnosis. It would be silly  for a child with a lisp to get speech therapy for a child who isn't verbal. It is not silly for some kids with ASD to get the same interventions as a child with MERLD. [b]They are neurologically practically if not actually the same.[/quote][/b]

This is where you lose me..[/quote]

Me, too.

When I taught there were MERLD kids as well with "quite a bit going on." I posted before saying the MERLD kids were much more alike with ASD than any other diagnosis and it wasn't uncommon to have a child diagnosed with MERLD seem to have more symptoms of ASD than kids actually diagnosed with ASD. Only very mild MERLD presented differently. It reminds me of when people on here were saying PDD-NOS is much milder and has a better outcome than ASD. We had quite a few kids with PDD-NOS who could not handle a mainstream environment and who struggled academically and just as many kids with autism (high functioning) that were fine in mainstream environment with supports and performing above grade level in some areas. As I said before, in the school system we focused on the individual child's needs. Certain diagnoses varied more by doctor who made the diagnosis than by symptoms.

The receptive and expressive language deficits come from the same neurological deficits, but kids with ASD have quite a bit more going on, and that causes other problems in addition to the language issues. [/quote][/quote]

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