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I'm really curious why you are so obsessed with this idea that there are legions of children out there with expressive language delays being diagnosed with autism.  I just don't se it.  ASDs involve far more than language delays and I've never seen a child diagnosed when that was the sole issue.  I have never, ever heard of a child who was misdiagnosed with an ASD and did ABA by mistake.  ABA is not an easy thing to access or implement and generally the kids who are more severely affected are the ones who get it.  Has there ever been a child who only had a speech delay but received ABA?  Maybe, who knows?  but if so it is a real rarity.  Why are you so obsessed with this?  What exactly is going on with your child that you have to harp on the idea that others are being misdiagnosed?[/quote]

Our DX went the other way.

My child was DX's with mixed expressive receptive language disorder first, then high functioning autism. He hit all of his speech milestones on time, and could talk, he just didn't talk much. He didn't use speech for much, at all.  Once he was DX'd with speech and started therapy, his speech improved greatly. It was then that his autism symptoms really came out. Once he talked more, we got a full dose of his obsessive interests.  Once he talked more, we got a full understanding of how little he was grasping socially.  He seemed more normal, not less before the speech therapy.

That said. He is much more functional now. He seems weirder, but he is more functional. I'm very glad we did the therapy. We didn't start until he was 6. The language thing wasn't improving on its own, for him.

If you have an ADOS and an ADI-R done, it should screen for language impairment vs. ASDs.  It's pretty sensitive to that difference. It's the gold standard for DXing.[/quote]

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