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MERLD is something very specific, actually. In the MERLD groups I belong to, the children are resoundingly similar to each other. The ASD category, though, is a hot mess.

None of us "groupies" are saying that other children don't have language issues - just that they did not fit the clinical definition of MERLD. [/quote]

ASD is indeed a hot mess, but nonetheless it is possible to get a dual diagnosis even if DSM-IV says otherwise, based on the clinical judgement of a licensed healthcare provider.  If the choice is between the opinion of a current professional clinician's diagnosis, and a definition created 20 years ago by people who never met my child, I'd probably go with the one  who actually met my child.[/quote]

You are not remotely helping the OP -- who has used a professional who HAS met the child and said it's MERLD. Not sure why you have such an ax to grind about this.

Understanding our child had MERLD -- not ASD -- was a huge turning point in helping our child get the right help.

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MERLD is no longer in the DSM.  Children on the spectrum are NOT a "hot mess."  It's a [b]spectrum[/b].  There are degrees of severity.

For someone going on an outdated DSM has no ground to stand on.  The handful of kids that you know don't reflect the science that went into developing the new criteria.  The OP's child has [b]language processing issues[/b].  He should be given an diagnosis from the latest DSM, so that supports will reflect this.  I say this as someone who's kid was diagnosed with MERLD and not ASD.  You bizarre MERLD posters are off the hook.  All you care about is the distinction that it's not autism.  It doesn't matter.  Period.  The end.  We're not talking about your kids or mine.[/quote]

OP is looking for help with MERLD or what ever you want to call it.  It is still heavily used in the space community even if it is not an Dsm diagnosis.  Can you please contribute something useful.  Most MERLD parents talk about things that work for kids.   What can you contribute to that?   An overpriced online computer program in a so called therapist office is not one of them.  That program looks like it is for 3-6 year olds, not older kids.  [/quote]

I am not the PP you have been quarreling with.  But I am the PP who described the Fast Forward program my DS did the summers he turned 8 and 9.  An even older child in our neighborhood did it (they did not know about our experience).  So it i not just for very young children.

I assure you that Metropolitan Speech, where he went, is not a fly by night SLP place.  FFW does not work for every child with receptive language problems, but for my DS the progress was amazing.  And yes, it was expensive.  But the improvements in language scores we saw in six weeks would have taken several years of language therapy to achieve.

Considering insurance doesn't pay for the therapy, it was not more expensive in the end and saved us from having to schlep him to the therapist for years on end.  We did do language therapy for four years as well; FFWD made the last year particularly effective.

I continue to be astounded by the vitriol on this post.  My DS was dx'ed with MERLD under the old DSM and an auditory processing disorder by the GW audiology department.  FFW was very effective for him.  So was language therapy.  I fail to see what is controversial and unhelpful about sharing with OP what worked in my DS's case.[/quote]

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