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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am one parent who doesn't care what the diagnosis is as long as they pay for services. I can't afford the massive rounds of private tests, and on the two rounds of testing we did do, my child got so stressed and poorly behaved (he kept telling me he was stupid and bad at school because he was figuring out that the testing wasn't "normal") that I declared a moratorium on testing for a couple of years. He did much better in school, and because he got the ASD label slapped on him, he's been getting a bunch of services, including the ones I really wanted for him, like OT.

I don't think it is ASD (they said in the old charts this would have been HFA or Aspergers), and this year we will look into ADHD because he's older now and that's more what it always seemed like. But in elementary school, a label is just a label, and if it gets lots of in-school support and services, I'm for it.[/quote]

Gosh, I have wondered about this before too. The testing situation is so stressful for them and after years of doing evaluations and such, they know when they are being evaluated and assessed, and mine stresses over whether she's giving the "right" responses or not. It makes you wish they could just somehow invisibly observe the kids in their natural environments (school, family, activities) and base more of their findings off that. It seems only natural that the kids will perhaps not be themselves when they're in an acutely stressful evaluation situation and that might influence findings.[/quote]

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