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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think studies like this are so interesting and important to the big picture of diagnostic validity. But as a parent of a child who has not been diagnosed with autism but still gets a lot of the same therapies, this is the take home message:

"But by and large, these children continue to struggle with daily life. Almost all of them still have to contend with language and learning disabilities and a variety of emotional and behavioral problems."

Autism is not the boogeyman, and "outgrowing" it does not equal a magical recovery.[/quote]

By large, but there are kids like mine who aren't having emotional or behavioral issues or learning disabilities.  Its not a magical recovery as its just that particular child's normal development pattern its different for every child and the one size fits all mold works for many but not all.

They are all the same generic therapies but how they are implemented should be very different (the problem is some providers treat all the kids the same, like we had at the school services and it was doing my child a huge disservice as the therapies were not geared to their needs or even the curriculum but the kids who were struggling the most and had the most need in the group.)  Speech and OT and PT should all be catered to the individual and for a child with a language disorder who has receptive and expressive issues, that will look very different from a child with non-verbal ASD or a child with ASD and social communication language issues.  PT is going to look different for a child with low tone issues vs. a child who had a broken leg and is recovering.  And, beyond OT for holding a pencil and fine motor skills, I didn't get the point so I cannot even draw a comparison and even then beyond holding a pencil I couldn't figure out the benefit given we worked at home.[/quote]

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