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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My current 34 months son has been seen & evaluated by a developmental psychologist & also a developmental pediatrician from children hospital since last year summer. Still, no one has given him ASD diagnosis yet even though they are suspicious of it.

Each evaluation is ranged from 1 hour to 3 hours. He has severe expressive delays, not awesome eye contact, some flagging hands/tiptoe walking, loves abc/numbers/shapes/colors, loves to play with kids/adults, and also he does not understand personal boundaries (too friendly to strangers). No one can give diagnosis yet because he could be just a normal kid with some delays, per professionals.

Even though everyone (his daycare teachers, speech therapists, pediatrician & friends/family) say he is not ASD, but we still keep seeing them every couple months for evaluation. He is on the waiting list for ADOS test now, could be a year of waiting. We will see how it goes. Someone tell me that it is difficult to give ASD diagnosis to a young kid unless the symptoms are really obvious or just like the textbooks ones.[/quote]
It is in fact difficult to diagnose ASD in young children.  The main thing to do now is treat the symptoms.[/quote]

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