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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty sure every teacher has seen a kid with autism. It's now one out of every 68 kids who are diagnosed.
It's not a check list that tells you if a child has autism. It tells you if the child has difficulty in certain areas and the more of them you check the more of a red flag it is and the more the school will recommend further screening. I don't know of any school district that makes placement or IEP coding recommendations based on one test. Do they?[/quote]

I've seen private, mostly oversubscribed catholic schools, have teachers perform various evaluations of children using 'checklists' or crude evaluation methods to assess children - mostly with the endgame of pressuring parents to medicate the child (mostly boys) or to counsel them out of the school so that the child's needs could be 'met elsewhere'. In every case a smaller class size and better and more creative teaching methods could have meant that all of these children could have functioned fine at those schools but that was not what they did. None of these kids was seriously disabled and virtually none of them had anything close to ASD and no - these teachers had not seen a real ASD kid much less a classroom of them in their lives.
If teachers are going to evaluate kids they should get some training first - some weeks in a Kennedy Krieger clinic, acsemester in various special ed classrooms. Or - maybe they could leave the diagnosing up to those that have dedicated their lives to that and just focus on teaching the children in their classrooms.[/quote]

The checklists are not designed for clinicians. They are designed for laypeople, like teachers.
You are really getting tiresome.[/quote]

Out developmental ped reads questions for me and child, that is what these tests are.  He does not talk to the therapists or teachers.  It really varies.[/quote]

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