“Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate” for May 6, 2010
Today we’ll be answering questions from moms about the differences between an autism diagnosis and Mixed Expressive Receptive Language Disorder and coming up with some creative ways to help elicit early vocalizations from toddlers who aren’t great imitators. Listen in for our answers.
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Hope you’ll join us then! Laura
Comment by Jodi on 17 January 2012:
I didn’t get a chance to listen to the whole show, but there was an error at the beginning. MERLD and Autism are indeed mutually exclusive Dxes in the DSM-IV. The PDD the speaker referred when reading from the DSM was to ALL the Pervasive Developmental Disorders, NOT just PDD-NOS, which is indeed one of them, along with Autism, Rett’s, Asperger’s, and Child Disintegrative Disorder.
So to have a MERLD Dx, all of those other conditions will have been ruled out. MERLD also often comes with sensory and other motor planning issues.