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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don't understand how all these people think an autism diagnosis will get them good services. We get shit services and I have a child with behavioral, attention, social and communication issues and an autism diagnosis. And the diagnosis is totally legit... There are three people in my family with that diagnosis and it's legit.

We also had to fight the school system to accept our diagnosis from Kennedy Krieger... Not some fly by night pill pusher.

And as for insurance, we pay so much out of pocket. I dare anyone to get all their services for their child from in-network providers! It's just not possible!

An autism diagnosis didn't open this miracle door to free or low cost services at all![/quote]

We private paid for about a year at a huge cost.  When we got the autism diagnosis, we did get everything covered, including speech which we private paid.  The doctor supported us staying with our current therapist and they had a partial, not full in-network relationship.  He somehow got it approved.  He also got OT and ABA for us, all in-network.   Our co-pays were minimal (compared to private pay).  For some, it does open a miracle door.  Without the autism diagnosis the pediatrician (not the one who diagnosed it) could not get us speech therapy no matter how hard she tried.  She still couldn't get it and we had to go through the developmental ped.  For some, its true.  We have gone private for school so I cannot speak to an IEP till we transfer to public.  I am hoping my child will not need services when we do that.  The schools provide very little in terms of services.  For us it was a waste of time as it was so minimal.[/quote]

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