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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In short: They don't. But in order to service a child with a "Social Communication Disorder" and the other co-morbid conditions they need to choose the educational diagnosis of autism... and frankly, this combination screams autism to me.

Do not confuse the educational diagnosis with the ultimate identity of your child, I'd say if it gets him the extra support accept it and go from there. Do not buy into the myth that kids can't get rid off their label. [/quote]

I 100% agree with this. Forget the word autism since for some people on here it seems to be horrifying. (I personally pushed for the label to get the services we felt dd needed.) Pretend it's some word with less meaning like "Frogs." Kids with the educational label "frogs" are known to be in need of social skills/pragmatic language help, language therapy, OT, etc  so the educational diagnosis helps you push for those services. Many kids labelled "Toads" are much less likely to need pragmatic language support so it may be harder to access that and/or for those who just briefly glance at the IEP they may be more sensitive to the pragmatic weaknesses of the frogs.

Deep down I do wonder if certain labels do get a child more or better services though nobody will ever outright share this.[/quote]

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