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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid sounds like mine at that age, and this is basically the diagnosis he has now at age 9 from his speech therapist (I think they called it semantic pragmatic disorder). I told his psychologist I wasn't interested in an ADOS at this time because the distinction between autism and "social communication disorder" in the DSM is irrelevant (for DS, at this point) because it won't change any services we seek right now.
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And the prejudice against autism rears it's ugly head.  You weren't "interested" in the ADOS b/c you know your speech therapist can't diagnose autism and god forbid, you have a child with autism.  [/quote]

I'm sorry you feel this way PP but your reaction really says more about you than me. Having the autism evaluation done would have been at least an additional $1,200, more likely closer to $1,500 because she probably would have had to incorporate a school visit since our greatest concerns were related to peers. Our out of pocket expenses for therapies run us about $10,000/year. We are not interested in enrolling him in a public school, and we are already doing every therapy the psychologist would have recommended even with an autism dx. Maybe you have an extra $1,500 to burn, but I didn't see the point.

Also, he's had an ADOS, completed by the public schools when he was 4 1/2. The results of that said no autism, but I'm not so sure. I'm happy to spend the money to re-evaluate when the answer will be useful.[/quote]

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