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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20:22 PP here.  My DS has Asperger's but is fine socially.  The way we were told he was PDD is we (my DH and I) were both given a survey to take.  We couldn't do it together in the same room so we couldn't ask each other what we were putting for each answer.  Once the tester scored each test, we were told that both of our tests scored that he was PDD.  He also has a psychiatrist (who is on the fence about the PDD diagnosis) and a weekly therapist (I'm not sure her opinion, I've never asked her).  He has also been diagnosed with Mood Disorder NOS (changed from Bipolar NOS) and OCD.

How were your kids tested?  Is the parent survey thing a normal way to diagnose?[/quote]

A parent checklist (that we could fill out together) was just one component. The psychologist also observed her at school, had her teachers fill out a lengthy checklist, and observed her over three sessions -- two were formal testing (WPSSI and something else) and one was a play session. Just a checklist doesnt seem like it would give enough information to make a definitive diagnosis and rule out other possibilities.

For my dd, her most asperger quality is social deficits and low frustration threshold and, more positively, her amazing memory for totally useless details (i.e. she know what number track on what CD for every song she listens to). [/quote]

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