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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is it isn’t like they can ethically use identical twins who are borderline being diagnosed with a disability -let’s say with a diagnosis of autism -and give one ABA and/or twin speech therapy or occupational therapy and the other one receives nothing.

So many places that specialize in autism are going to see everything under that light and diagnosis almost all children who go there with autism just to err on the side off caution because insurance will pay for ABA (often times that that center provides). [/quote]

Which places? We got our child evaluated at CAAT at the evaluator did not recommend ABA. In fact they didn't recommend any services we weren't already doing (though if we hadn't gotten the diagnosis we would likely have stopped them because they are kind of inconvenient for our schedules, but we manage). They diagnosed our kid with autism, which wasn't entirely expected but now it is so obvious to me. If anything the autism experts are the best ones to rule it out. I never got the sense our evaluator saw "everything under that light". Too many evaluators that aren't autism experts just punt the question by saying "could be autism but can't diagnose yet!". You can absolutely say yes or no for a 4+ year old.[/quote]

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