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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, Camarata published the "Late-Talking Children" book in 2014 (as was the interview) and republished it in 2015.  It's not that recent and nothing new, it's just based on all his prior research b/f DSM V changes in 2013.

It's also bizarre your obsession on treating language disorder when Camarata talks about clinicians conducting a “confirmatory” diagnosis.  As a parent if you're just looking to SLPs to confirm a language disorder--guess what, that's what you'll find.  SLPs are not qualified to diagnose autism without specialized training:  http://blog.asha.org/2014/04/10/can-speech-language-pathologists-diagnose-autism/

We all know that most children with autism are late talkers and most late talkers don't have autism.  We also know that the numbers of children with the autism "label" is artificially inflated by IEP designations.

[b]The OP's child is just 3,[/b] stop trying to "help" her by ramming your obvious skew that it's not autism.  Come back and rant all you want about language disorders when your child has actually a had a neuropscyh evaluation.  At 3, her developmental pediatrician was being conservative and not over zealous with a diagnosis.  What her child's diagnosis will be in a few years will be anyone's guess.

However, it doesn't matter if it's a language disorder or autism (btw, kids with autism can have language disorders too), her kid sounds in need of practical help.[/quote]

OP's child is not 3. She said the 3 year testing is coming up to rule on special education eligibility, so more around 5 or 6. Meaning the Developmental Pediatrician's diagnosis will most likely stand as the child would have been past the age where ASD is readily indentified.

OP, what we did in this case was allow for everything but the ASD evaluation. So language and academic testing was done, and our language impaired child qualified under the speech and l[b]anguage category[/b] -- which meant he was able to get speech, OT, and resource room.[/quote]

Why would you refuse the ASD evaluation?  I can understand refusing a school district ASD evaluation (or any evaluation) if you doubt their competence or think that they're trying to shirk language supports with the ASD label.  But why wouldn't you have your own dev ped do one if there was any cause for concern?  [/quote]

B/C PP's kid was initially diagnosed as autistic, but her SLP diagnosed MERLD.  She's avoiding a diagnosis obviously b/c it a kid isn't autistic it's much easier to diagnosis when a child is older and she's afraid of what the results would find.

I'm also curious as to what the "language category" is for an IEP.[/quote]

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