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"We go the diagnosis after a 30 minute visit, mostly talking to me.  Our follow-ups are 15-20 minutes."

Need a new doctor--- typical experience is hours of testing, questionnaires for the parents and teachers and more than one appointment.  [/quote]

Not really. This kind of drive by diagnosis is very common. [b]Most of the parent in my group didn't have hours of testing[/b] --they couldn't afford it. Some d venture just went with labels from the school. [/quote]

The MERLD mom strikes again.

Again the anecdotal evidence from your group doesn't prove that doctors are handy out autism diagnoses willy nilly and/or a[b]re incentivized in any way to do so by insurance groups[/b].  "Labels" from the school aren't a medical diagnosis.

MERLD hasn't been in the DSM since 2013 and won't get you an IEP.[/quote]

Your blind anger prevents you from reading properly. People aren't saying they are incentivized by personal gain to go with an ASD diagnosis. They are saying the doctors are more willing to give out ASDs because it helps their patients get therapies. [/quote]

I already wrote that that FAPE inflates the actual number of kids with autism, but that's b/c of the limited designations for which you can get an IEP.   This "label" isn't the same thing as an independent evaluation.

Read the entire thread.  The MERLD mom said [b]over and over[/b] on this thread (and others) that the doctors give out autism diagnoses so kids come see them or are incentivized by the insurance companies to give an ASD diagnosis.  This is hogwash.
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9:12 poster looks like a good example of this very idea, and there's more than one poster on this thread who has said they took the ASD label they thought was wrong so they'd get services. So, not hogwash at all. [/quote]

Parents accept an IEP designation so they get services, in't the same thing of doctors conspiring with insurance companies to give autism diagnoses.  That's what MERLD mom keeps repeating, and that's hogwash.[/quote]

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