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That's begging the question.  The topic here is why OP's child is being flagged for ASD; and Camarata's excerpt itself suggests there is a very high co-occurance of language delay and ASD. So screening and evaluating a child with a mixed expressive-receptive language delay for ASD seems prudent, and Camarata makes some pretty specific criticisms about how that is done.  My question is whether people have specific experience in the DC area ASD clinics of being misdiagnosed solely on the basis of language.  [/quote]

OP said the child was screened and ruled out.  Teachers are not trained in diagnosis [b]nor do psychologists, especially school ones have the expertise to tease out the different disorders.  So, you are solely using ASD to derail the conversation and discredit MERLD or receptive/expressive language issues[/b].

Yes, of course, people have gotten misdiagnosis at the specific ASD as well as developmental ped's.  But, that is not why you go see someone like Dr. Camarata.  Same thing if our kids did have ASD or another medical condition.  I would take my child anywhere in the world if it meant proper diagnosis and treatment.  If your child had a specific illness, would you take them to a generalist or someone who specializes in it?  You'd travel and get your child the best treatment possible.[/quote]

NP here. PP, you need to just stop. You have been repeating the same crap for pages, accusing everyone who disagrees with you of "derailing" the conversation when it is you, you PP who needs to separate your experience with your child from what OP might be going through. Of course psychologists are trained to "tease out" different disorders. Do you not understand that having an ADOS does not mean that autism is automatically diagnosed? The ADOS was designed to differentiate autism from other disorders, especially language delay. If OPs child has not had one, he/she should get one.

Please stop making everything about you. You surpassed "providing a helpful perspective" like 7 pages of text ago. Now you've settled into the "no one can help but Steve  Camarata" routine and it is just such overkill. Just stop. Do a spin off thread if you must but please stop taking over other people's questions. It makes it very hard for them to get the help they need, which may include choices you don't agree with.[/quote]

How much direct training do you think psychologists have with language disorders?  What a few week section in one class at school?  Its very different than an SLP's training.[/quote]

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