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[quote=Anonymous]OP, we are in a similar situation.  My DS was diagnosed with ASD at children’s 1 month before he turned 2.  He was non-verbal at the time, and was only crawling.  The doctor diagnosed him after 20 min of watching him interact.  There were no tests.  Our insurance did not cover ABA either, so while the doctor was telling us this diagnosis would be helpful, it wasn’t really.

We did end up doing ABA, due to his not talking and some other things.  They focused mainly on language acquisition (different from speech), as well as relating to the world around him.  There was no table time, no clickers, no using food as a reward, none of the awful things you hear about ABA.  I noticed a month in that DS really was starting to relate differently to people and his surroundings.  We did it for about 6 Mo; then switched to a county preschool that offers speech, OT, and PT.  We also do private PT and speech.  The school day activities basically are what his ABA therapist was doing with him.  Almost all of his therapists have commented on the fact that he doesn’t really seem to fit the mold of ASD.  He wasn’t even classified as autistic on his IEP; they used developmental delay instead.

All of this is to say-we went ahead with as many therapies as we could throw at him on the assumption that the more interventions he got, the better off he would be, WHATEVER his issues are.  If the ABA people you interviewed don’t sound good, find another practice (or skip it all together if you don’t want to bother).  Don’t let your worry over a possible misdiagnosis stop you from getting the therapies your DD needs to help her.  If you found another doc to say no, she doesn’t have ASD, would you stop all therapies?  If so, that’s something you should examine in yourself.

Good luck.[/quote]

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