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Yes, OP, schools like to pull this shit. They put a bunch of forms in front of you, not clearly explaining what they are looking for. Then they have a hack school "psychologist" with minimal training and supervision do their autism assessments. [b]It's a racket.[/b]

Of course, we laughed when they did this to us. Teachers were hounding us about autism, tested DS behind his back, then were shocked when even their hack psychologist found no autism. (We had outside evals saying no to autism, too.)

From then on, we specifically wrote into the IEPs that we did not consent to autism testing.[/quote]

How's it a racket? What's the play, exactly? Who's getting rich here?[/quote]

In my school district (in the Midwest, not in D.C. now) the autism programs are a lot more robust. They have all the teachers and programming, especially for younger ages. Schools interpret educational autism really broadly and rules vary state by state one what an educational autism label looks like in each state. That's the reason there are such discrepancies of autism rates around the country; the CDC relies on documents from school districts to determine autism rates.   Autism in the schools is just a catchall today.

Anyway OP, never trust the schools to diagnose autism. Go to the professionals who specialize in a differential diagnosis. The better diagnosis you get, the better treatment program you can put together for your child.[/quote]

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