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[quote=Anonymous]MERLD is a term to diagnose receptive and expressive language issues.  The issue is not if it is in the DSM but rather OP child being recognized to have the concerns.  How sad for the child that he has been struggling all these years without the proper diagnosis.  OP, you need a good SPL to diagnose language disorders and most psychologists and generalists like developmental ped's do not really understand it and often slap on an ADD, ADHD or autism diagnosis.  Then you get the parents on here who are very dismissive and make it about their child's autism or ADHD and ignore your concerns.

Best thing to do is get intensive speech therapy with someone who understand it and can help as your child gets older.  Its very hard to find someone skilled at older kids and MERLD.  Ours is great and works on the reading comprehension, answering questions, verbally responding to questions, etc. on top of the language issues.

One big thing is when you talk to him, be aware to use simple sentences that are not run on.  If you tell him someone in a long paragraph he may get lost 1/2 way through vs. one sentence which he can easily follow.  This is very common that kids really struggle in older grades with more lecture/verbal teaching vs. visual.

There are a bunch of Facebook groups for language disorders and MERLD.  Join a few even though its basically the same people on all of them.  They are a great bunch of parents who are very supportive.[/quote]

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