Anyone get a second opinion for ASD child and was the outcome different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've heard of diagnosis being different for kids who were evaluated at a young age. If you do chose to get another evaluation you should definitely tell the other practitioners because some tests are not supposed to be repeated within a certain time frame otherwise the results are considered invalid. I would still treat the area of need - like speech therapy for language needs for example or social skills since kids with a variety of diagnosis needs those types of therapies.

11:09 Again. The tests that are not suppose to be repeated within a certain time frame are the IQ tests: WISC and WIPPSI. These can only be administered 1 yr apart at a minimum for the results to be valid.

[Anonymous]

My DD received a diagnosis of moderate to severe autism at age 2.5 (from well known expert in CA) and ADHD/Sensory Processing Disorder/anxiety/language disorders (but not ASD) from Kennedy Krieger at age 3. Never was on board with initial diagnosis, many things were off. 2nd diagnosis feels right. It's tough to accurately diagnose these things when they are so young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not full blown ASD but PDD. DS was 5. Very social, super popular at school but had impulse control issues as well as attention. Also wasn't good with personal space...i.e., keeping his hands to himself was challenging for him.

Tester said he was a "mystery" in that they couldn't get a clear read on too much with regards to IQ and some other components of the neuro-psych eval - so he slapped on the label of ADHD/Inattentive type at risk for reading and math disorder. and one teenie tiny line in the 40 page report that said PDD. We were shocked, I mean floored!! ADHD yes,, but not PDD.

I took that report to Kennedy Krieger to one of their developmental peds who basically laughed at the notion that DS was anywhere on the spectrum.

My gut told me to trust the developmental pediatrician at Hopkins over the psych who did none NONE of the testing. he farmed it out to another person who did all the testing and she basically gave him "her results" to interpret.

He's in Chevy Chase BTW...in case any of you are considering using him. total joke and waste of money.

Who is this please, so I do not use him? I know it seems nasty and unprofessional to name names, but I would appreciate it. This is not bashing or giving him poor yelp ratings, this is just helping other parents like me to not see someone who is useless! Thank you