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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is WAAAAAYYYY to early to be discussing autism.  Just because of that I would be second guessing the person who was evaluating.  Either way, please know that on these tests, just one or two "wrong" responses can make your child look/test more delayed than he or she actually is.  Like one of the PP's said, you are getting in very early to intervention which is great.  The next level would be to receive services.  The specialists will leave suggestions with you so that you can work on stuff while they are not there.   If your child doesn't show progress in a few months then you might want to look into a developmental pediatrician.  [/quote]

I agree.  To be fair, what happened there was that I probably freaked out and glazed over when she was super focused on the speech regression thing and said I could pursue double track evaluation simultaneous to EI, and should contact [name of center], which has autism in the name but also deals with development generally.  The evaluator herself said it was too early to really say autism, and DD's extremely social personality doesn't exactly scream autism. [b] I have a friend who diagnoses autism who let me know that the social stuff don't foreclose autism spectrum, however (and has a sister who meets that criteria). [/b] [/quote]

What exactly does this mean?  In a 7 month old, there are very few ways to see potential for autism and social skills (responding to social stimuli like peek-a-boo, smiling at caregivers, lifting hands to be picked up) are about the only way to evaluate..[/quote]

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