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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. My private insurance already covers unlimited sessions of speech therapies for my 4 year old WITHOUT autism diagnosis. He has been doing 7 sessions/week for speech therapies through EI (public) & private for his speech delay (apraxia of speech).

The ADOS doctors say that the autism diagnosis is not solely based on his limited speech, but it is more about his social behaviors. He is self-centered, imitate people conservation without understanding the meaning, not aware of the other's people emotion/reaction etc., and he has been followed by different developmental pediatricians from children hospital since he was 15 months old suspicious of spectrum but cannot get the conclusion. It is just now that it is the first time he did the ADOS test from children hospital time (almost 18 months waiting list) that they give him an autism diagnosis.

I will continue to do speech therapies through ST, and they recommend ABA therapies & OT for his social communication behaviors. They recommend 25-30 hours/week of ABA therapies, is it too many hours or standard for 4 year old that is in private full time daycare? What ABB therapist do actually? As a social behavioral therapist to model correct behavior? And, they recommend me to pull him out from private full time daycare (even he is happy & learning at his own pace there), but put him in special need public preschool program (I bet autism diagnosis make him definitely eligible for the program)? I don't know about that. [/quote]

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