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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]P.p of 4yo, can I have a link to a merld group? Looking for support.[/quote]

Natural Late Talkers on Facebook. It's a closed group and you have to ask to join, and it might take a day or two to get access, but it's a good, supportive forum and they have rules to keep things from veering off into special diets, supplements, and whatnot. [/quote]

Yes, this group is terrific.

Such a relief after the DCUM, which is openly hostile to MERLD, as we see in every thread started by a MERLD parent.[/quote]

Then stop posting here. The point of this facebook group referenced above is to avoid autism diagnoses. Many of the children have been diagnosed at one point with ASD and their parents shopped for a new diagnosis. They exclusively recommend the Camarats, who are fine, but Mary is literally a SLP - not a doctor or a psychologist. She is fine, and a good SLP, but there is nothing magic about her other than the fact that she diagnoses autism less often than others. The children she sees are not NT, and will likely never be, But their parents desperately want to avoid a "label" and believe that ABA is "damaging" - they also vaguely mention avoiding other types of therapy, even though the kids so often clearly need OT and behavioral help. They are hostile to recommendations that people get help or complete assessments even when children obviously have far more going on than language delays.  Bottom line: its a bunch of quackery crap that reassures desperate parents. I wouldn't care except some of those parents are not getting help their children desperately need because of their own issues.

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I'm assuming your child has ASD and you feel the need to be the parent who has to claim all kids are ASD.  MERLD is very different than ASD.  You haven't met these kids and make grand assumptions about them.[/quote]

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