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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally get being upset his wife won't consent to an evaluation. I don't understand being upset his wife won't accept an arbitrary label. [/quote] A diagnosis of autism isn’t arbitrary (nor is it a “label.”)[/quote] Then you know nothing about autism spectrum disorders. My friend has been an OT for 40 years. She says that they used to get kids diagnosed w brain damage. Now every kid with any kind of brain damage or neurological difference, so long as they have communication or social or sensory issues, it doesn't even need to be all 3, gets diagnosed with autism. It's the catchall diagnosis. [/quote] As a parent whose dc was dx a year ago (so, 'now')-this is not true. At all. My child wasn't even dx until age 4.5, dc had been in EI since 12 months. No one slapped an ASD label on dc, it was after a 2 day neuropysch eval that included ADOS. My dc was dx with ASD because my dc has autism. [/quote]
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