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[quote=Anonymous]Having a kid diagnosed with MERLD at a young age and at KKI, yes, there may be differences with kids diagnosed on the spectrum, but the point is MOOT.

Not only is MERLD no longer in the DSM, but early treatments look almost identical for kids diagnosed on the spectrum.  [b]Our[/b] kids (kids with MELRD, ASD, MS, NVLD, ADHD, Tourettes, CP, selective mutism,  rare genetic disorders like Turners Williams, or Lowe's Syndrome, or a plethora of undiagnosable birth defects) have done the same speech therapists, language based preschools, summer camps, and even SN schools.

Some kids with MERLD struggle later on; some kids with ASD struggle later on.  Some kids with any of the above struggle later on.  If your kid "outgrew" MERLD, then your kid was simply a late talker and didn't actually have MERLD.  So go away.  For the rest of us, let's embrace the diversity of our deficits.  We still continue to struggle.

For those of you still struggling emotionally (or avoiding) the autism label  on your IEP--realize that this is [b]not[/b] a medical diagnosis, but a legislative attempt to allow [i]access[/i] to education.  The DSM is more regularly updated (based on research) than the legislative laws are.  So yes, your snowflake may not fit perfectly into the the legislated designations written in the 1970s:  (Autism, Blindness, Deafness, Emotional Disturbance, Hearing Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic Impairment, Other Health Impaired, Specific Learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Visual Impairment), but so what.  
 
Get over it.  The point of legislation to make education accessible was to prevent institutionalization.  Institutionalization has been the [i]nightmare[/i].  People with developmental disabilities, unplanned pregnancies, mental health, substance abuse, physical handicaps, all lumped into non-desirable and have been at one point or another institutionalized.  The US has as a shameful history as Nazi Germany.  So please, please, please, lets do the best for vulnerable populations.  So for the OP and all the other it's MERLD-not-ASD obsessed posters, it really doesn't matter.  The fact that your kid grew out of or caught up to is irrelevant.  Your experience is irrelevant.  [b]Early intervention helps everyone[/b]--no mater their genetic predisposition.[/quote]

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