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OP, take a look at these youtube videos. The site is by British psychologist Dorothy Bishop who is also an Oxford researcher.  She specializes in language disorders and has been critical on autism drowning out language disorders in the public and among professionals.

https://www.youtube.com/user/RALLIcampaign

Here's an interesting blog, too:

http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-allure-of-autism-for-researchers.html

The allure of autism for researchers

"...But I do wonder why there is such a skew in interest towards autism, when many children have other developmental disorders that have long-term impacts. Where are all the enthusiastic young researchers who want to work on developmental language disorders? Why is it that children with general learning disabilities (intellectual retardation) are so often excluded from research, or relegated to be a control group against which ASD is assessed?"
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Yeah, these kinds of broad-based cultural criticism pieces are not really useful on an individual level.  Yes, it's good to understand that people are primed to "see" autism now.  But adopting a fringe view and turning into a way to guide what kind of diagnostic tests to consider ... not really very useful.  As parents, I believe we have the responsibility to carefully consider the opinions of mainstream professionals before we decide to stake out an alternate route.  That researchers "skew" towards autism really says not much at all about what OP should do about the fact that educational professionals and at least one medical professional thinks that her child shows signs of an ASD.  [/quote]

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