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Hmm. Interesting. My earlier post disappeared.

Scientific research has found that joint attention skills and the ability to read nonverbal cues separate non ASD from ASD. [/quote]

You keep posting this.  Do you have a kid who was diagnosed with ASD?  I'm guessing not since if you did, you would know it's more subtle than that.

It's not like when you take your kid in for an evaluation, they check off "joint attention" and " ability to read nonverbal cues" as the criteria for diagnosing ASD or ruling it out.

I have a kid with ASD/Asperger's and he never had issues with joint attention and his ability to read nonverbal cues have improved greatly to the point that it's not much of an issue at this point.  So according to your criteria, he is "cured" which he certainly is not.[/quote]

I've read the research as I have a child with MERLD. At at young ages, it's the joint attention and nonverbal cues that are the major indicators that differentiate ASD from non ASD.

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You are doing everyone a disservice by making it sound like this is the criteria that is used for evaluating ASD or ruling it out b/c it is much more than that.

Also, many kids who are on the spectrum have joint attention and the ability to read nonverbal cues - but they are not as good at it as NT kids.  A complete lack of joint attention and a complete inability to read nonverbal cues is true for [b]only[/b] the most severely affected kids with ASD.[/quote][/quote]

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