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[quote=Anonymous]The usefulness, for us, has been that the diagnosis gets us attention from the school district and access to therapies (through EI and paid for by our insurance) which have been helpful. I also believe that having the diagnosis helped us get a Katie Beckett waiver in DC. Theoretically, if all these institutions focused on deficits, we could come to the same result, but in my experience many insurance companies, school districts, and public service providers will try to wiggle out of expensive obligations and if you do not have a diagnosis of something serious, they will try to tell you your child doesn't need the service, is just avoiding work/being lazy/stubborn/poorly behaved etc. Also using an umbrella term like "ASD" collects a bunch of stakeholders who can easily find each other and cooperate on shared goals. Those stakeholders could be people with the diagnosis, parents, researchers, institutions, etc. [/quote]
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