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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, you are missing the point.  School labels are not the same thing as a medical diagnosis. There are only 13 categories by law under which you can get an IEP:

There are ONLY 13 categories of special education as defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).  In order to qualify for special education, the IEP team must determine that a child has one of the following:

-Autism
-Blindness
-Deafness
-Emotional Disturbance
-Hearing Impairment
-Intellectual Disability
-Multiple Disabilities
-Orthopedic Impairment
-Other Health Impaired
-Specific Learning Disability
-Speech or Language Impairment
-Traumatic Brain Injury
-Visual Impairment

Change the law or change your doctor and stop bitching and moaning about your wrong diagnosis.[/quote]

The thing is, schools push kids into the diagnosis that works for them, for programming and money and their own labeling biases. Ofen you have to fight the good fight to have your child labeled with the correct thing in school, instead of the diagnosis du jour of autism.

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Its not as simple as talking to the doctor.  I have.  He does not listen.  We do not have an IEP or school services.  We do all services and school privately.  So, your comments are not relevant to us as our school does not do IEP's and provides support without one.  And, when we go to private, we will do our best not to have an IEP and continue with private services regardless of the cost.[/quote]

If you can pay for private school, then you can definitely pay to see a different developmental pediatrician or have a neuropsych evaluation done.  Quit your whining.[/quote]

+1. Second the suggestion for the neuropsych evaluation.  Minimum age is 6.  You can take it to the developmental pediatrician and have the misdiagnosis for ASD removed once and for all.[/quote]

We have done all kinds of private testing locally and out of state.  The man refuses to consider any opinions outside his own.  I can get ten more disagreeing with him but no point if he will not change the the diagnosis and service recommendations.  How many evaluations should a child be subjected to.  If he has what he needs and we do not need it to benefit him why subject him to more testing when nothing will change.    Our private school is very inexpensive compared to everything else we spent and cheaper than hiring an advocate and risking him getting lost in a large classroom. [/quote]

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