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MERLD World Blog

Cie
  • By Cie · New reply November 6, 2009
  • In Living with a communication disorder · 1 reply
  • The latest installment (there are three thus far). I hope that you all will find them informative. I would appreciate any feedback and rating on the content of my blog so I know if it is helping anyone ...

Recommended reading

CMTDST
  • By CMTDST · New reply October 31, 2009
  • In Speech and language disorders · 1 reply
  • Can anyone suggest any really good books to read on language disorders and/or autism/asbergers in dealing with "meltdowns" and social skills? Several people have suggested Carol Gray Social Stories to ...

new to group husband 41 with aphasia

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Mixed receptive/ expressive language disorder

sky2bro
  • By sky2bro · New reply October 4, 2009
  • In Speech and language disorders · 23 replies
  • My two year old had been give the diagnosis or mixed receptive expressive language disorder. There is little to go off of other that it has no known cause, he may or may not be able to function at a normal ...

Age of MERLD Diagnosis?

JaxMom
  • By JaxMom · New reply September 27, 2009
  • In Speech and language disorders · 6 replies
  • Hello everyone - I'm new to this board and am going thru some things that sounds so similar to what all of you are. My son is 5 1/2 and we have not yet had a MERLD diagnosis, however he has been tested ...

MERLD World Blog

Cie
  • By Cie · Posted September 27, 2009
  • In Living with a communication disorder · 0 replies
  • Hi everyone! Well, I began my MERLD World blog today as a prelude to my book, hopefully which will be published in 2010. I hope that you will follow. Cie http://open.salon.com/blog/cheryl_cie_ho smer/2009/09/27/merld_world ...

Another MERLD question

Mecca
  • By Mecca · New reply September 9, 2009
  • In Speech and language disorders · 11 replies
  • I am new here and found this site based on another discussion about MERLD. I didn't want to take over her post, so I decided to start another one. When my son was 2 we had him evaluated by EI as he had ...

Writing a book on MERLD

Cie
  • By Cie · New reply August 22, 2009
  • In Living with a communication disorder · 2 replies
  • I am looking for testimonials for my book on living with MERLD. Two of my children have been diagnosed with it. I've been looking for ways to make the activities of daily living better for them and the ...

Hi all...new to this group

Bootyjig5
  • By Bootyjig5 · New reply July 14, 2009
  • In Hearing disorders · 1 reply
  • Hi everyone. I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would join a group like this, but I'm glad that I did. Right now, this is place I need to be. On May 18th I woke up with no hearing in my left ...

VPI and Apraxia

Mama4
  • By Mama4 · New reply June 23, 2009
  • In Living with a communication disorder · 2 replies
  • I'm new here and just thought I would ask if anyone else has been diagnosed with VPI and Apraxia and what the outcome was? My 6 year old daughter was diagnosed with Apraxia when she was 2 and has had ...

Tinnitus treatments?

Peter
  • By Peter · Posted April 19, 2008
  • In Hearing disorders · 0 replies
  • I know that tinnitus research is increasing, due to the high incidence of this condition in troops returning from the various wars we're fighting. I'm hoping to spark a discussion on practical approaches ...

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