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[quote=Anonymous]A dev pediatrician who sees your child once a year or twice a year for an hour gets different kind of information from a teacher who has your child in class every day. Notice I say different, not more or better or less or worse. 
Teachers aren't usually trained to spot autism but developmental pediatricians do not see your child interact with other children and usually do not see your children in "natural" settings.
When doctors and therapists meet my DS in the clinic they think he is engaging, articulate, mature, and focused. Several therapists who have worked with DS weekly even question whether he should have any diagnosis at all because he is so consistently well-behaved. When this happens we point to the teacher report. In class he is hyper and sometimes can't get a lick of work down to save his life.

Dev. pediatricians rely on teacher and parent reports to make diagnoses and recommendations. There are ignorant teachers and teachers with biases, but you can't discount them blindly. If I were OP I would take the checklist the teacher produced to a new developmental pediatrician or neuropsychologist to try to get more recommendations about what evaluations to do next.[/quote]

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