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[quote=Anonymous]Testing for Autism may be included during psychological testing if other test batteries, teacher feedback, and/or behavior during testing suggests a need to do so. You do not consent for testing for specific diagnoses. You consent that testing can be done in the following areas: educational, psychological, speech-language, OT, PT, etc. These general areas are discussed. General, broad, testing is done by each relevant area to start, and depending on the results, more specific tests are added. They can't know a diagnosis in advance, nor are they looking for one. Schools do not make diagnoses, they look for areas of impact to determine a code, but it is not a medical diagnosis. They may give the code of Autism, but they really are only saying that the student displays characteristics that are similar to those who do have Autism. This will only be the code if they believe it is what has the *most* impact (not the *only impact, but federal law requires that they pick a primary area for the code).[/quote]

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