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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you anticipate that he will receive any kind of accommodations in college, such as scheduling priority, extended time on tests, opportunity to test in a quiet location, a notetaker, or a single room (just some examples), he'll need an evaluation done after his 16th birthday.  It might be worth having them look at the possibility of HFA.

[b]If he truly needs no accommodations, at school (no 504?) or in college, then I would question the need to explore an HFA diagnosis.  One of the criteria for autism is that you that you find challenging, or areas in which you need support.  If that isn't true of him then he might be quirky, and he might share a lot of characteristics with Autistic people, but he doesn't have it.[/quote][/b]

20:48 here I disagree.  It is a question of whether they meet the clinical criteria not whether someone is "disabled" by it.  DS finds reading body language and social cues difficult but bc he has had a lot of supports/social skills training, it is hard to tell that he had this issue.  He still has autism, however, and doesn't just "share a lot of characteristics with autistic people."[/quote]

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