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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A preschool teacher offers a diagnosis for a child?  A trip to the administrator's office -- immediately -- to report this nonsense. Because think of what she's saying and doing about the children who DO have a diagnosis.[/quote]

This.

To PPs who say the teacher was "just trying to help" may be correct, but there [i]most likely a procedure in place[/i] at any preschool to make suggestions about getting kids evaluated no matter what their issues.

It's unprofessional of the teacher and may be a pattern of behavior not just a simple case of poor choice of wording.[/quote]

Would you feel the same way about a preschool teacher telling a parent, "I think your child might have chicken pox.   See those bumps there?   They look like chicken pox to me.   My son had that and it looks exactly the same.   I think you should get her checked out."

It's not a diagnosis, just an alert to something that might be going on.[/quote]

Apples and oranges, and I think you know it.  Chicken pox is not a lifelong problem.  It doesn't follow a child throughout his schooling.  It doesn't have a lifelong stigma.  It's not a special need.[/quote]

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