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[quote=Anonymous]We saw the Camaratas at Vanderbilt in August 2004. If Dr. Camarata had not been present, it would have been disappointing. There were several times during the diagnosis discussion that Mary wanted to include "x", but then Dr. Camarata would say "no, you can't diagnose that because she can do 'y'". My daughter was almost 3 at the time of evaluation and is now 12. She was diagnosed with a severe mixed expressive/receptive language disorder, not on the autism spectrum. We had decided to homeschool before she was born, and that decision was even more important with her diagnosis. It has been a long and sometimes difficult road, and she still struggles with the nuances of language, but she is doing very well. She auditioned for and got a role in her first play this summer. She is doing well in school (we continue to homeschool). Oddly, her best subjects are reading and language arts!

I'm not sure I would have been so confident in the direction we were going or if we were even working with an accurate diagnosis if we had only seen Mary. I am sad to see that Dr. Camarata no longer does the evaluation. And yes, we paid for our eval with them - we were actually the first people who had to pay.[/quote]

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