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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In short: They don't. But in order to service a child with a "Social Communication Disorder" and the other co-morbid conditions they need to choose the educational diagnosis of autism... and frankly, this combination screams autism to me.

Do not confuse the educational diagnosis with the ultimate identity of your child, I'd say if it gets him the extra support accept it and go from there. Do not buy into the myth that kids can't get rid off their label. [/quote]

Oh, so you are smarter than all the folks who created the DSM 5? You just know that Social Communication Disorder is autism?

And the proper educational label for someone with SCD is a LANGUAGE disorder, not autism. [/quote]

Why so aggressive? You didn't read carefully enough. If we were JUST looking at SCD, my response would be entirely different. But OP also mentioned MERLD and ADHD. OP also noted she does not see her child be able to mainstreamed immediately. A non-cat special ed classroom will not necessarily target SCD and the combination of conditions very well, whereas an autism classroom could do this very well. A LANGUAGE disorder just gets you speech therapy, it almost NEVER warrants a placement in a self-contained classroom.

And I can tell you from personal experience that girls in particular are often not diagnosed with autism until they are in their teenage years and no longer able to cope, so while I do not know if OP's child is a girl, I would still recommend to intervene heavily as early as possible.

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Because I have a MERLD child, and I get this line of shit from so many people -- mainly school personnel and autism parents determined to broaden and lesson the spectrum. You are ignorant and wrong and spreading misinformation. A language disorder got my son every accommodation, including speech, OT, one on one aides in classrooms and a full IEP.

Once you put a child in a center-based program, they almost never come out.

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