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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]

Some do. But I know many, many personally who don't. It's a fact. I just spoke with a half-dozen moms of MERLD kids this week whose children were misdiagnosed with autism and whose kids now show no trace of ANY disabilty.

As with anything, it depends on the severity of the issue. [b]But MERLD children won't have the core problems that will remain with autistic children all their lives -- the inability to socially connect with people[/b].

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More stigma.  You're just wrong. Kids with autism spectrum disorders aren't unable to connect with people. They have impairment in that area, but they do connect with people.  Their social connections are odd, but they are functional. [/quote]

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