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I'm a different poster than above, but I wouldn't put much stock in a psychologist, especially a school psychologist. Many really aren't trained very well. You really have to do your homework to find one who does a differential diagnosis.

And the ADOS has issues if you drill down. It has sensitivity, but lacks specificity.

Some posters seem to be trying to say that Dr. Camarata is some sort of "fringe" practitioner, which simply isn't true. He is one of the premier language researchers in the U.S.  He is a scientist and extremely exacting. During our early testing years ago, we had a CARS done at a Children's Hospital as part of an initial battery of tests. Several months later, the Camaratas repeated the CARS test, without knowing the result of the first one. The scores were within a half-point of each other - no autism.  But still, because of our child's extreme language difficulties, teachers and school psychologists relentlessly pushed for a autism educational label.

It's just what happens to many language impaired and language delayed children. Because just like posters on this board, they THINK they are qualified to diagnose.
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