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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if your child had the gene for breadth cancer or a rare disease, must you disclose it?  What if he needed surgery as a toddler to fix a birth defect?  Schools have a right to know things likely to impact the student's performance, attentiveness, treatment of other students and teachers, but not one's entire medical history.  A diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder is a medical diagnosis.  Now, if the child had an IEP in public school and that reflects the diagnosis at the time you apply to school, that is tougher issue.  But even then - what if the parents disagreed with a school's diagnosis?  What if two doctors disagrees?  It gets complocated. [/quote]

If you are talking about middle school, you are talking about 11 yr olds and 11 yr old don't get misdiagnosed with ASDs.  3 yr olds, maybe.  11 yr olds, doubtful.[/quote]

Hi, I am the poster you are responding too and I agree with your statement, but the fact is that many ASD kids are diagnosed by age 5 or before.  In your example, by the time a child diagnosed at 4 turns 11, for example, he/she could have had 7 years of intervention.  if that were the case, do you still believe an applicant must disclose this history to a middle school automatically without any consideration of particulars.  Fortunately, when we applied for middle school our school - at least at that time - only required is to submit copies of educational testing that was done within the past three years.  Our testing was further back than that so we did not have to make any misrepresentation.  But I too had the experience when our DC was younger a private elementary school - supposedly one tolerant of at least some kids with some "issues" - refused to even meet our DC because we were open about DC's diagnosis.  I know tons of parents in MoCo who tried to game the system by keeping a PDD-NOD  or other diagnosis as long as possible in anticipation of applying to private schools.  Privates need to still up their staff education about these kids to spot them and understand them. [/quote]

Most kids with Asperger's are diagnosed older than 5 and many can probably pass for NT before getting any interventions.  My kid with Asperger's got accepted into a mainstream private school at 3 for instance before we ever suspected that he has ASD/ADHD.[/quote]

My kid also was not diagnosed until 5 when his pre-k teacher flagged his behavior. But before that, he would have had a hard time with private school playdates because he didn't really talk to anyone outside his family. Four years of intervention and development later, he would do just find on private school visit and just seem a little shy, but would have a harder time being admitted because of the diagnosis.[/quote]

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