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  Depends on the ABA. It's discrete trial training typically and teaches a child skills.

It does not teach natural language.

ADOS overdiagnoses language delayed children with autism. Did you know that? [/quote]

Not OP, what do you mean ADOS overdiagnoses ASD? We are taking it in a. Few weeks and they told me it’s supposed to be for nonverbal kids too. Is it not?[/quote]

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-tests-struggle-to-balance-accuracy-and-speed/

Google "ADOS sensitivity and specificity." What you find is the ADOS is very good about correctly identifying that SOMETHING is wrong, but over-identifies ASD as the cause.

Based on the cutoff scores that yield the highest accuracy, or ability to identify autism, the SRS diagnosed children with autism with an accuracy of 94 percent, and the SCQ with an accuracy of 80 percent when compared with the clinical diagnoses. By contrast, the ADI-R accurately diagnosed 98 percent of the children, and the ADOS was 100 percent accurate, the study found.

[b]All of the tests were less specific, however, meaning that they did less well at distinguishing autism from other developmental disorders.[/b] The SRS diagnosed 33 of 44 children with other developmental disabilities as having autism and the SCQ misdiagnosed 45 of 50 children.[b] The ADI-R also wrongly diagnosed 33 of 48 children with other developmental disabilities as having autism. The ADOS fared best, misdiagnosing 16 of 57 children.[/b]

This is one of many, many articles on the ADOS. So many people here want to use it as a stand-alone test. It's not. Add to that this desire to label everything ASD, partly fueled by the money cycle -- want therapy?? Insurance will only pay for the ASD label -- and you quickly find out as a parent that you need to really focus on what your child needs and not get sucked into the ASD frenzy going on these days.

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