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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is complaining about the stigma of having an ASD education label.  To parents of kids with ASD who have an IEP under autism.  The lifelong stigma it will carry and how autism in general is overdiagnosed.  Like it is a choice....[/quote]

If that's how you took it, that's too bad. What I'm actually saying is parents having their kid evaluated need to do their homework:  select an evaluator who knows what they are doing, who has an impeccable track record and training. Got to a research hospital, a university, somewhere where they know what they are doing.  Don't accept the word of every Tom, Dick & Harry evaluator -- because they might not have any idea what they are doing. Hint: If they don't know what  a differential diagnosis is, they have no business diagnosing anybody with anything. [/quote]

if you could be any less patronizing...[/quote]

This poster doesn't realize that in some situations once a diagnosis is made and it is part of the official record, no outside evaluations count in less it is removed by the original evaluator.  We got an outside eval, brought it to the developmental ped who agreed but said it was still autism based on history and too bad.  So, because its an electronic record, it is seen by everyone.  Differential diagnosis is a very fine art.  Most developmental peds and psychologists are generalists in many areas and not true specialists in any one in less they choose it.  So, they are very skewed and may not be able to tell the subtle differences between receptive language issues and autism.  I can get 20 more evaluations by the top folks and if this one person doesn't remove the diagnosis we are stuck.

And, we've tried studies that people have posted on here and every one we get referred back to a major hospital, usually Children's who told us our child was not delayed when it was clear he was.  It isn't that simple or easy to get into studies.

If we were in a different health care setting, we could easily ignore the original diagnosis and use the current ones but that's not the medical plan we have nor can we get another one given the cost.[/quote]

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