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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would schedule her for ADOS to evaluate her for autism.  HFA in girls does not present in the same way as boys AND a psycheducational eval finding "signs of autism but not enough' should not rule out autism in a girl without ADOS.

If she is on the spectrum, it will be much easier to get her into the Asperger's program.  [/quote]

ADOS under diagnoses girls. If you are concerned about ASD, make sure you go to someone who has experience with girls. I recommend Dr. David Black.[/quote]

True, girls can better "fake it" socially.  We used Dr. Black for DS but can recommend Children's neuropsych dept under Lauren Kenworthy for ADOS.[/quote]

Doesn't everyone "fake it" socially sometimes? I have never understood the talk of how autism presents differently in girls. DS has some ASD tendencies but ASD was ruled out by ADOS and other providers, but many of the descriptions of how girls with ASD present seem familiar to me. If he happened to be a girl but with the same issues would he get a diagnosis? Seems arbitrary.[/quote]

This deserves its own thread, but one example is that one stereotypical boy asperger interest is trains and elevators. Those are kind of wonky interests, so a boy with those obsessive interests stands out. Girls are very rarely interested in those things but they might, for example, be obsessively interested in horses. Horses is a pretty typical interest, so the obsessiveness associated with asperger's would be harder to pick up. It's not a more vs less, but just different.[/quote]

Here's one article about the differences and why it leads to girls more likely to remain undiagnosed: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/autism-in-women-girls_us_58f6312ae4b0bb9638e6aee6[/quote]

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