Can you have aspergers if you have a SLI that is claimed to be ASD unrelated?

[StarlightMcKenzie]

The million dollar question I expect and not something that I NEED and answer to but was wondering.

Tongue tie (my lad)

Cleft palete (one of his friends)

How related to asd is apd? (Question I keep wondering though it affects receptive more than expressive language)

Crudely, DS' receptive is 2 years ahead, but his expressive is 2 years behind, making that a huge 4 year gap and quite unlike ASD, but yet he quite clearly DOES have ASD.

Not even sure if what I am describing IS SLI though.

Personally I think the huge gap is because his expressive was advanced of his receptive, so we spent 18 months practising receptive, and now he is ahead.

Hmm, I don't think it matters, really. My DS had classic ASD speech delay, so was never going to get an AS DX, but he's able, in MS, and if he was DXed now at 12 and I kept quiet about the speech delay, he'd get an AS DX, I'm sure. DSM 5 is going to drop AS as a DX anyway.

Do you prefer the AS name to HF ASD, Star? It's never bothered me, TBH. All spectrummy DC are so different, anyway.

No. I prefer ASD on balance. But we are currently in a situation where we are looking for a school and Aspergers opens more doors for the type of school we want than ASD does.

Not that I care that much. We're a long way away from anyone reading any of the humungous reports on ds so I tend to just use S&L difficulties, semanti-pragmatic problems, ASD or Aspergers or simply 'immature social skills' depending on who I am talking to and what I am hoping to get out of it.

Good plan! It seems strange to me that AS should open more doors than HF ASD, my DS is a really happy, easy chap, if rather flappy and spinny, not at all anxious most of the time, which I tend (rightly or wrongly) to associate with AS. He's also unconcerned about his ASD, which again can cause problems for more self aware DC. I'd say he's really easy to support in MS. But what do I know? I've been lucky not to have the battles some on here have had, partly due to ignorance on my part of not knowing what to battle for, and partly due to DS progressing well with/despite the support provided.

Just read your other thread, use whatever DX suits the problem if you can get away with it.

My DS has a diagnosis of AS together with phonological difficulties. His speech was slightly delayed but not beyond the normal range. He has difficulties with some specific letter sounds and a tendency to talk too fast so his words come out in a torrent and you can't follow. He often speaks too loudly too. He is understandable most of the time though. Diagnosed with AS at age 7.

My DS has a speech disorder and AS, no speech delay, but issues with nearly every sound, and auditory processing that corresponds with it

StarlightMcKenzie

Specific Langauge Impairment (SLI) is a speech and language impairment disability which can be independent of ASD, but it can be a contributory factor to the communication problems which combine to cause the ASD traits.
you could also have a look at the CiteULike Group Speech and Language Pathology - library which covers a wide range of speech and language issues

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