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  Depends on the ABA. It's discrete trial training typically and teaches a child skills.

It does not teach natural language.

ADOS overdiagnoses language delayed children with autism. Did you know that? [/quote]

Not OP, what do you mean ADOS overdiagnoses ASD? We are taking it in a. Few weeks and they told me it’s supposed to be for nonverbal kids too. Is it not?[/quote]

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-tests-struggle-to-balance-accuracy-and-speed/

Google "ADOS sensitivity and specificity." What you find is the ADOS is very good about correctly identifying that SOMETHING is wrong, but over-identifies ASD as the cause.

Based on the cutoff scores that yield the highest accuracy, or ability to identify autism, the SRS diagnosed children with autism with an accuracy of 94 percent, and the SCQ with an accuracy of 80 percent when compared with the clinical diagnoses. By contrast, the ADI-R accurately diagnosed 98 percent of the children, and the ADOS was 100 percent accurate, the study found.

[b]All of the tests were less specific, however, meaning that they did less well at distinguishing autism from other developmental disorders.[/b] The SRS diagnosed 33 of 44 children with other developmental disabilities as having autism and the SCQ misdiagnosed 45 of 50 children.[b] The ADI-R also wrongly diagnosed 33 of 48 children with other developmental disabilities as having autism. The ADOS fared best, misdiagnosing 16 of 57 children.[/b]

[b]This is one of many, many articles on the ADOS. [/b][b]So many people here want to use it as a stand-alone test. It's not. [/b]Add to that this desire to label everything ASD, partly fueled by the money cycle -- want therapy?? Insurance will only pay for the ASD label -- and [b]you quickly find out as a parent that you need to really focus on what your child needs and not get sucked into the ASD frenzy going on these days.
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Your article is from 2011. Why don't you find some information for 2012 and later, since that is when the ADOS-2 came out. People still say "ADOS" but practitioners have been using the ADOS-2 for years.

Also, I don't know of any professional who wants to use it as a "stand alone test". "People here" are not the ones administering it. Professionals are. It's part of a comprehensive assessment. It is possible to receive a diagnosis of autism on the ADOS and yet not receive a final, clinical diagnosis from a professional. And vice-versa.

Finally, I also don't know anyone who recommends "autism interventions". Interventions should address symptoms, not labels. That is true no matter what the diagnosis is.

I'm sorry if you had a bad experience, but there is no ASD conspiracy going on. The ADOS is a good test and if autism is possibly part of the diagnostic picture it should be included in the assessment. The professionals will use their best judgment to interpret the results, and parents should use their best judgment when following the advice of professionals. [/quote]

Knowledge is power, and we are trying to give the OP a heads up to do her research.

And you only need to look to this thread to see hiw parents are incentivized to take an ASD diagnosis.[/quote]

You need to stop making every single thread about you and your agenda. It is so unhelpful and unfair. Many of our kids need all the therapies regardless of the diagnosis and most of us just don't care to die on this hill. We treat the symptoms and the names are fluid and changing. I am sorry you found getting a label or a code for your child's disability so deeply stigmatizing but you continue to perpetuate a false reality and stigma on here constantly. My child does not have autism, but his peers that do are far more functional than my child. The label given does not change that.

OP, autism often does not travel alone. It sounds like your child may be almost non-verbal, is that correct? Are you doing PROMPT therapy? ABA was helpful for us in getting our child available for therapy - it taught him how to do things for longer stretches and to sit and work for a reward, etc. It was very helpful for my non ASD child. We also do speech and OT.

As for when your child will/if they will show signs of ASD - I found that my child looked and seemed much more impacted at 7. The gap just widened. Most 4 year olds are still not extremely verbal etc., but that changes very quickly and the disparities become more evident. [/quote]

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