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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What were the teams recommendations for services based on their assumption of ASD? Would your private specialists consider the services appropriate for your child? In the end, if the services are what your child needs and a wrong label gets your child those services then I wouldn't fight the system. However, if the services are inappropriate and they just want to dump your child in a program because it is there and the program is not the least restrictive environment, then I would fight even if it meant filing for Due Process.
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8:11 here (FOUR ASD evaluations).  The last time this was discussed (last year, surprisingly, it didn't come up this year) was when we were discussing speech services.  The school ST (who had worked with DS for at least 2 years) indicated he didn't take an interest in his peers and conversations on topics not of his choosing.  In this case, whether he had ASD or not was critical to the discussion because it would change the nature of services and goals.

DS has a communication disorder and has expressive/receptive language skills well below those of his peers.  It's so difficult to converse on topics not of his choosing because he doesn't know the topic, the vocabulary and is so slow to process the conversation. It's not that he isn't interested in his peers, it's that he has difficulty communicating with them and is of an age where language makes a huge difference in peer relationships.  When you're with people speaking a language you're not fluent in, it's hard and exhausting trying to keep up with conversations.  That this 'observation' came from his school SLP who should have known the difference was crazy.  He needed a speech goal, not a social skills goal.[/quote]

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