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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]2) Even though your child has had THREE (THREE!!!) private neuro-psych evaluations by top doctors over the last 6 years...and even though doctors 1,2 and 3 have said otherwise....and even though no other IEP team at any of your child's other schools agree with our "opinion", we think your kid is on the spectrum.... And by the way, you know you really didn't need to get those private evaluations as we could have done it FOR FREE!! [/quote]

This has been our experience in FCPS except we had FOUR private evaluations in 6 years including 2 through ASD research studies from NIH - DS consistently did not meet the criteria for ASD.  Yet, year after year, the school team pushed ASD for the eligibility category.  The last year they said DS 'might' not have medical ASD but that he had 'educational' ASD.  WTF?  He has a medical diagnosis of communication disorder.  He has a medical diagnosis of ADHD.  He has had LD diagnoses since he was 5. Stop with the ASD already![/quote]

The definition of ASD that is included in IDEA (i.e. "educational autism")[b] is substantially different and broader than the definition in the DSM-V [/b]("medical autism").  Part of this is because the definition hasn't changed, and part of it is that IDEA only has 14 disability categories, while the DSM V has 297.  [/quote]

Which of course drives the whole "autism epidemic" fallacy.

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Exactly.  Every one of the 297 DSM V diagnosis has to fit into one of the 14 IDEA educational disability categories for an IEP.  You cannot expect an exact match although ADHD often is put into OHI instead of Autism.  A school may put ADHD + communication disorder under educational autism rather than OHI (other health impairment) when the types of services (like Speech) is usually provided by the school under Autism.[/quote]

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