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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, somone keeps claiming that ASD and MERLD have the same brain scans and neurological base. But that is not true. To see the brain scans, go to the link.

http://eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/late-talking-children-confused-with.html

Late-Talking Children Confused with Autism Spectrum

This study (figure above) provides insight into some of the whys of speech delay. When late-talking children listened to their mother's voices "recalling relatives, pets, and events; and singing familiar songs", they listened with their right language areas rather than their left (controls). We've blogged on some the characteristics of right-hemispheric language (Searching for the Right Word in the Right Brain); gifted dyslexic storytellers (here) also tend to have a right hemispheric pattern of expression - cinematic (immersive, multisensory, rich in associations), but often non-linear. The fMRI appearance of autistic subjects, on the other hand, is very different from this. Language problems associated with autism showed reduced connectivity with sentence comprehension tasks, but the activity is still on the left hemisphere, not the right. For more on this, look here. [/quote]

The link is about late-talking children, not MERLD.  Is this just about kids who happen to have delayed speech and that's it?[/quote]

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