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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s more context about how a GDD becomes an ID diagnosis if the child hasn’t caught up by 5:

https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/global-developmental-delay-dsm%C2%AD--5-315.8-(f88)

Again, this is from a medical context. It could be that the schools approach it differently![/quote]

You’re thinking it’s some kind of concrete thing based on the diagnosis but the reality is that they’re telling you it looks like your child has an ID. Many kids with autism are delayed in more than two areas - speech, motor, social - so GDD - yet have high IQ and are not obviously ID. ID refers to IQ. Delays =\ ID. [/quote]

All I’m saying is that GDD, according to the medical literature, is a diagnosis for kids under the age of 5. If they haven’t caught up by then, the diagnosis changes to ID. This is not a rubric that is specific to my child. It is the general framework for the diagnoses.

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It is nowhere near as black and white as this, or the GDD term would almost never be used. Medicine is not like law. Plenty of kids don’t catch up at 5 or ever but are not intellectually disabled. To be intellectually disabled you need an IQ of less than 70 and low adaptive skills. Getting such a diagnosis is an involved process. Nobody simply goes from being labeled as GDD to ID automatically when they turn 5.[/quote]

PP.  I know I am guilty of using GDD to describe what was going on early on and then not naming the updated diagnoses.

I'm the poster above with the 4th grader.  So now that he is verbal and above 6 years of age, he is now diagnosed with mixed expressive/receptive language disorder.  The significant change here was moving from delay to disorder.  This indicates that he still has the issues although he's making steady progress.  He could either catch up completely, although it may take longer than NT peers, or at some point progress will stop and we will know the extent of the disorder.  Being in 4th, we are very much still dealing with pandemic learning loss; it is much harder for SN kiddos to bounce back and make up for lost time.[/quote]

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