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The roots of the language disorders with MERLD and autism  are different. [b]Autism language therapy typically focuses on compliance and teaching social communication skills along with language, [/b][b]while MERLD children do best with back and forth matched responsive play-based therapies designed for a child with a speech disorder. [/b]

Once a MERLD child's language has come in, they become fairly typical kids with only residual language weaknesses that they learn to cope with.   Once a child with autism has language, it becomes more and more apparent they are autistic, and they then have to cope with the other issues that autism brings. 
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This hasn't been my experience with speech therapy. At all.  Speech therapy should be targeted to specific deficits that each child faces.  Every child, regardless of DX, should get a specific ST work-up and therapy should be targeted to those deficits.

I think you're under-estimating the "residual" language difference of MERLD kids.  They have long term problems which are comparable to kids with Aspergers. [/quote]

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