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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This?  This right here is why 1 in 68 kids have "autism" now in the US.    But not in Canada or Germany or any other industrialized wealthy nation.

[quote]I could care less if ASD is over diagnosed as long as these kids are getting the help they need.[/quote]

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Maybe because the USA has a higher standard for children.[/quote]

You think we have more higher standards than most of Western Europe and Canada and Australia?  No.  If we did, we'd have way more social services.  We do, however, have a system where a parent can sue the school district to push for services.  In some ways, that's a good thing, obviously.  But, certainly, there are wealthy parents that have the means to abuse the system.  [/quote]

You think there is an epidemic of wealthy parents suing the school systems to get their non-autistic children autism services?  :shock: [/quote]

I didn't say there was an epidemic of it, but wealthy parents do have the means and sometimes will abuse the system.[/quote]

The ones I know with the means to sue, don't.  They go private instead.  Very few suits are filed.[/quote]

I thought most private schools didn't have great autism services.[/quote]

There are private school specifically for high functioning autism -which is what we are talking about. The increase in autism diagnoses is at the HFA/mild end of the spectrum.  Plus, many HFA students simply do better in private schools because of the smaller classes. [/quote]

You can only get public funding for private SPECIAL NEEDS schools.  The academics are generally much better at public schools and mainstream privates.  You should visit the SN schools you are talking about.  Most do not take public funding and we prefer that our kid with HFA stays at his public school with IEP.[/quote]

Public funding for private school is very very very rare and only for extreme cases.
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