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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of this is helping OP find a school for her kid folks.

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Oh, good lord.  We are trying to help.  Siena and Lab are great suggestions for dyslexia or other language based LDs.  MERLD isn't a diagnosis for an 8 year old.  In trying to clarify issues from OP, it seems like she hasn't either had very comprehensive evaluations or she doesn't know how to interpret them.  MERLD might show up as a diagnostic/ICD code in a report for example.
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MERLD simply means expressive and receptive language issues.  Call it what you want. Official diagnosis would be a language disorder.  Most call it MERLD to describe the type of language disorder, just like people still use Aspergers despite it being removed as well.  Its still very common to use with the language disorder community.  Not all kids with language disorders have academic issues, especially dyslexia.  They are more prone to them but to make the assumption and insist child has more issues is doing the child a disservice.  I've heard good things about Lab but most kids I know are much more severely impacted at that age so it may not be a good fit for OP child.[/quote]

We all know what MERLD is and that it hasn't been in the DSM for at least 5 years, so to in the OP's words to be "recently diagnosed" as such is just confusing in terms of what schools to recommend.[/quote]

Agree, but many SLP's still use it as its easy.  Confusing for me is child wasn't getting the right treatment if apraxia early on and now MERLD.  But, not all kids with language disorders have academic issues but academics can be impacted when the kids are expected to give verbal answers or reading out loud and they are not speaking in a similar manner to their peers.  Sadly, there is no elementary school that mainly works with verbal language disorders.[/quote]

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