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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, my child has severe MERLD along with auditory processing issues and a learning disorder. So his prognosis has been much more difficult than that of so many other MERLD children we know. In high school, he is in a mix of regular classes and special ed classes.

Typically the outcome hinges on receptive language. When your child's receptive language catches up, the rest of their issues fade out. Some still have anxiety because of the years of being behind. Some have to compensate if their receptive remains somewhat weak, but they learn to. And while I know people are all about early intervention, in my experience,  the only fix for receptive language is time.

Let me know if you have other questions. 
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Did you feel like school helped your son along or did it make him more frustrated? [/quote]

In his case I think preschool helped quite a bit. He was eager to be around other kids and to experience new things. He definitely spoke more in school settings, and that carried on into home.

K on through high school has been very hard. People don't understand language disorders because they are so focused on ASD. The differences in my kid and others in special ed is stark. So similar in many ways if you look from a distance, but so different when you drill down.

And personally, I have found most SLPs aren't that great. They have a very forced, didactic style that doesn't build natural speech. I saw this clearly when he had an impromptu speech session with Mary Camarata in Nashville. It was amazing how much language she got out of my son -- and she said nothing at all.

The Hanen Method out of Canada is very helpful. Parents and families spend so much more time with their child than any therapist.

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Very very few good SLP's sadly.  That was our experience too.  We had one we loved but after mid-elementary school, it really wasn't helpful anymore.  We ended up dropping it per the developmental ped and SLP to allow for the more natural speech to come since much of it was very forced sounding early on which is why its often confused for ASD when its how these kids have been trained for years.

The Camarata's really get these kids.  But, Dr. Camarata doesn't write his own reports so our report was useless and he wouldn't help us get a better one.  His advice was correct, but not really all helpful as he liked what we were doing - school, SLP, progress so he said not to change anything, which is what we went for to see what we could do differently.  (technically that's a good thing).

For us, I think the one thing that helps is we don't have any LD's and my child likes to learn.  We didn't do the Hanen method that many recommend but we spent a lot of time early years on basic academics and handwriting - handwriting was a huge struggle at first like many kids on here but we kept at it and did lots of workbooks and it finally paid off.  I think getting them early and giving a good foundation is the best thing.  I knew the play based was not best for our child and the academic route was better.  My child read before they talked so that really helped the talking and everything else.[/quote]

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