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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.

[b]Have there been MRI studies of MERLD kids with autistic like features and kids on the spectrum.[/b] 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]

Yes, there have. Autistic children use their left sides of the brain, as NTs do, only in a lesser capacity. The study indicated that MERLD kids were using the RIGHT side of their brain.  ALso "hylerlexia" is another term that's thrown around very loosely and has strayed far from its clinical meaning. If a child is reading early and knows what they are reading, they are NOT hyperlexic. They are early readers. The definitiion of hyperlexia is to read without comprehension.

Monday, February 02, 2009
Late-Talking Children Confused with Autism Spectrum

http://eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/late-talking-children-confused-with.html

When late-talking children listened to their mother's voices "recalling relatives, pets, and events; and singing familiar songs", they listened with their [b]right [/b]language areas rather than their [b]left [/b](controls).  [b]Language problems associated with autism[/b] showed reduced connectivity with sentence comprehension tasks, but the [b]activity is still on the left hemisphere[/b], not the right. [/quote]

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