Reply to The Kids Who Beat Autism: New York Times

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "The Kids Who Beat Autism: New York Times"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]

[/quote]

Are the studies talking about Asperger's/PDD-NOS as part of ASD or just Kanner autism?  All the kids I know with a Asperger's or PDD-NOS dx, now ASD, all got there diagnosis when they are older, 4+ yrs old.  I read elsewhere that the avg age of an Asperger's dx was 8 yrs old although there is now a push to find these kids earlier so they can get early intervention.

I'll be honest, I wouldn't be able to tell if these kids at our school had any diagnosis at all if not told by their parents...  and I'm not the only one either b/c many had gone to another charter, Bridges, for preK3 and that school which is known for their SNs services had not been concerned enough to suggest an evaluation or interventions.[/quote]

We have younger kids so I only know kids getting diagnosed at between 2-4.  Mainly at 2-3 as the parents are all very proactive.  You basically need a diagnosis to get services.  Right now, the easiest way to get all services is to have an autism diagnosis.  Our insurance will not pay for anything or very little without an autism diagnosis.  With insurance, we can get anything from ABA to speech to OT to PT.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics