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[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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Early intervention was good to give them the tools they needed when they were ready to talk, but agree time really made a huge difference.  Not what people want to hear.  I always wonder if there was any point to all the early intervention or would my child have been the same if we didn't do it, but I wasn't going to chance it.  I suspect looking back it would have all come in its own time.  However, the speech therapy was helpful with the structure of how to talk and giving them a memory bank to draw from when they were ready.  Many go into speech therapy thinking it will fix it.  If your child catches up quickly they probably would have regardless of the therapy as that was their time to catch up.[/quote]

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