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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The difference between diagnosing a young child with a lifelong condition, and providing early assistance to a child who may be at risk of developing a condition isn’t semantics.  CALT’s can’t diagnose.  It is unethical for them to imply that what they can do is substantially the same. [/quote]

You are absolutely right, CALTs do not diagnose and I hope I didn’t imply that we can or do. Families come to us after they have been identified or diagnosed either through school or a psychologist. We provide therapy-level instruction in reading, writing, and spelling.

And I agree that the difference between identification and diagnosis is more than semantics and I’m sorry I used that term.

What I was trying to get at, and I think the psychologist and I clarified, is that early identification should be followed by intervention. My own child was known to have poor phonological skills at 5 but not diagnosed until 7. He didn’t receive services until 7 because of that. This was years ago, I didn’t yet know what the assessment results meant, and school didn’t flag it. I’m hopeful things have changed.[/quote]

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