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[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]

+1 million

There are a couple posters here who flip their lids when someone says their child has been recently diagnosed as MERLD. But we know from our MERLD message boards this diagnosis is still used all the time, all across the country, by all kinds of people doing diagnosing, including developmental pediatricians, SLPs, clinical psychologists, etc.

The DSM really shortchanged kids who have language disorders. It's "Language Impairment" diagnosis is woefully inadequate and likely why it's being rejected when people sit down to actually put a code on something. MERLD was a much better descriptor.

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