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[quote=Anonymous]We had an Early Stages evaluation at 5 for social and gross and fine motor impairments, at the suggestion of his wonderful pre-K teacher who obviously could tell he had Aspergers but wasn't allowed to tell us that.  No cognitive issues (to the contrary, he was far ahead), and he talked like a chatterbox with a close to adult vocabulary.  He did/does sometimes get stuck on sentences and have to restart (a neurological thing associated with ASD, when he is under pressure) but Early Stages didn't care about that.  The speech issue they were concerned about was "pragmatic" speech, which was just another way of saying that his social skills were awful and he had trouble sustaining back and forth conversation that was not just him explaining something he's interested in.  And he had/has trouble with frustration tolerance.  We got an IEP right away and several hours a week of OT, SP, and social skills group.  Formal Aspergers diagnosis by private neuropsych evaluation didn't come until more than a year later, and didn't affect his IEP all that much.  So clearly it is possible to get an IEP recommendation out of them for social and motor issues, with the caveat that my kid is obviously autistic (if you really know what to look for--we didn't understand it at the time).[/quote]

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