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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think in Montgomery County the Autism program was a racket like the Minneapolis fraud.

I think they were labeling kids that weren't autistic as autistic so they could get federal funds.  Now they are afraid of getting busted.[/quote]

As someone who worked in special ed in MCPS you could not be more wrong. [/quote]
Yes, my experience is that it's been the opposite...those programs are EXPENSIVE and the gap between federal/state funding and what the district has to cover is a lot. They are more likely to gatekeep, if anythiingl.[/quote]

It depends on the school/principal and sped staff.  In ES, our school was pressuring us to get our child diagnosed for autism so they could get the funding, as they were going to lose a sped teacher if they didn't have the numbers.  However, if we agreed, they weren't willing to offer any additional support for our child so it was just a diagnosis in name only (they refused to recognize the real diagnosis or needs per multiple private evaluations all saying the same thing and their in-house evaluation).  I cannot say if its happening now but it absolutely was happening in the past and parents were pressured to agree to a diagnosis for the school's needs, not the child's (I might have agreed had it provided extra or any help to my child).[/quote]

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