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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think it depends which professional you talk to. I have posted before. My son was diagnosed with MERLD and I was pretty much told down the line that some professionals use MERLD and ASD interchangeably because the interventions are the same. Often you can get more services in school with the ASD diagnosis. In the end it doesn't matter. Your goal is to get as much intervention as possible tailored to your child's individual needs and both that varies more from child to child than from ASD to MERLD.
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   The most interesting thing I was told was brain scans of those with ASD and MERLD were similar, but I didn't do a lit search so not sure if that was anecdotal.[/b]

The DSM is ever evolving. They used to have Aspergers as a separate diagnosis too. Many years ago I believe I read homosexuality was considered a disorder as per DSM early editions. A group of professionals meet and make adjustments. It is not carved in stone. [/quote]

Of course, they are similar.  Lots of kids with ASD have receptive language disorder and expressive language disorder as part of their ASD.  That is going to look exactly like the language deficits that kids with MERLD have. [/quote]

Huh?  No, MERLD and ASD are not similar.  Kids can be both, but they are not inclusive.  You can have expressive and receptive issues without ASD.  It looks different as the children present very differently.  With just MERLD, most kids outgrow the concerns as the language progresses, with ASD, they often remain. [b]MERLD kids do not have the same struggles when they are older as ASD.[/b]  But, if it makes you feel better to lump all these kids together, go for it.   [/quote]

I totally disagree with the conclusion that kids outgrow MERLD but ASD is some sort of life long curse. My child who unquestionably has ASD and has had lots of social skills therapy. While difficulties with pragmatics and social anxiety remain, they have gotten much better with therapy and development. Just like I suspect with kids with MERLD, they improve with time and therapy but will always have vestiges of language struggle.

Most things exist on a spectrum (not to be confused with "the spectrum"). Some kids with any diagnosis will have lifelong struggles and other kids will be able to learn, compensate, and grow so that their adult difficulties will be much less.[/quote]

So, you don't have any real experience with MERLD, yet, continue to feel the need to tell us what our children are going to be like, what therapies are best for them, etc., all based off your ASD experience?   :roll:   Sounds like you are having a tuff time with the ASD diagnosis.  Kids with just MERLD tend to fair pretty well.  [b]Its the ones who have other disorders[/b], such as reading are the ones who continue to struggle.[/quote]

First, I'm not *continuing* to do anything, as I am not the other ASD/ADHD poster who has commented in the past.

Second, you're right, I don't know anything about MERLD. For all I know, every single person ever with MERLD outgrows 100% of their issues and goes on to have perfect lives. But to say that kids with all the "other disorders" are irreparably fucked and will never have fulfilling lives because their disorders -- totally unlike MERLD -- are lifelong death sentences is beyond offensive.[/quote]

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