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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sort of in your shoes, OP.  [b]Who made the autism diagnosis?[/b]

Our preschool's therapist thought our son had ASD at 2 but we pursued an eval from an excellent Autism Center, and they did not think he was autistic.  A lot of his autism-like behaviors were social anxiety-based.

We placed him in private speech therapy and an excellent preschool that would help him with small group play, and he is doing great (also 4.5).  We are sending him to a private K next year.  We shall see.

Ours has caught up on speech but we are keeping him in therapy to make sure all his sounds develop properly and because his therapist is so good with helping reduce his anxiety (because he can express himself).  That is what the Director of the Autism Center suggested.

I would probably switch to the private and supplement with speech if there is any reason at all to do so.  Good luck, it is stressful trying to make the right choice.[/quote]

OP here.

[b]A nurse practitioner at Nemours DuPont made the original diagnosis. She used mostly data from his IEP and my responses to questions to make the diagnosi[/b]s. When I asked her about re-evaluating, she is the one that referred me to a developmental psychologist.

My son also has an educational diagnosis of autism through the school district which allows him to qualify for services. Just based on his delays at this point, he would probably no longer qualify. Our service coordinator made it pretty clear that we should not ask to reevaluate his educational diagnosis if we still wanted our speech therapy through them.

Thank you for the good luck wishes! I never realized how stressful making these decisions would be.[/quote]

This is not a robust diagnosis. A true autism diagnosis is done by a team of people over several days. You need a differential diagnosis, one that takes into account your child's language delays, which mimic autism at young ages. [/quote]

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