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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think part of the confusion is people are saying kids with MERLD can look autistic before language catches up and have all sorts of symptoms and lose them. plenty of autistic kids lose thosesame symptoms over time.

Have there been MRI studies of MERLD kids with autistic like features and kids on the spectrum. Everyone is saying they are different and I think someone said they involve different areas of the brain which doesn't make sense to me since language centers and language centers. Have there been imaging studies or is this all just speculation?

Plenty of kids with hyperlexia lose autism like features with language therapy, yet many professionals consider hyperlexia to be on the spectrum.[/quote]

Lots of things are  related disorders that are "on the spectrum" but are not ASDs. There are a host of disorders that can be grouped together as related disorders. Researchers call this the broad autism phenotype.

To me, it's like the relationship between bipolar disorder and unipolar depression. Individuals  who are relatives of people suffering from bipolar disorder suffer from unipolar disorder much more often.  They get part of the disorder, (depression) but not the whole disorder (mania). Interventions that are correct for bipolar are not correct for unipolar depression.   Hyperlexia and/or some specific language disorder (semantic pragmatic disorder, maybe MERLD)  may be like that. The child gets part of the ASD, but not all of it.

You can read a discussion of it here: ttp://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201006/006-not-quite-autism-the-borderland-asd
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