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Anonymous wrote:^so are you saying we should not try to diagnose and provide interventions at a young age but wait until the kid is older and clearly autistic to provide therapies?

Not that poster, but yes, I don't think ASD should be diagnosed till later, and kids should receive the services regardless of the diagnosis. With language kids it teases out around 4-5-6, when they are talking. If its a dual diagnosis, its also pretty clear as well. We did unnecessary therapies for a long time till I had enough and choose the ones I thought were helpful for my child's specific needs.

I am that PP, and I agree with this. Treat all the needs right away with services, but don't give a child a label like ASD until you know for sure what you are dealing with. Use a broader Developmental Delay label.

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Anonymous wrote:^so are you saying we should not try to diagnose and provide interventions at a young age but wait until the kid is older and clearly autistic to provide therapies?

Not that poster, but yes, I don't think ASD should be diagnosed till later, and kids should receive the services regardless of the diagnosis. With language kids it teases out around 4-5-6, when they are talking. If its a dual diagnosis, its also pretty clear as well. We did unnecessary therapies for a long time till I had enough and choose the ones I thought were helpful for my child's specific needs.

Anonymous wrote:^so are you saying we should not try to diagnose and provide interventions at a young age but wait until the kid is older and clearly autistic to provide therapies?

Anonymous wrote:I work in preschool special ed. Over the years, I have seen kids who come in with ASD diagnoses, and significant delays certainly seem to have all the features of ASD, who exit our program a few years later looking much more like kids with another disorder (ADHD is a common one), kids who enter looking very similar and who develop lots of skills, but continue to be very clear autistic, and kids whose skills develop very slowly. Some of the kids in each category have gotten intensive ABA style intervention, some have gotten biomedical interventions, some got both, and some got neither, so it is hard for me to say what caused the changes in kids, but also easy to see why a family in that first category (the ones who no longer met criteria for ASD) might attribute the change to whatever form of intervention they chose.

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Anonymous wrote:Great, now her son is "passing."

what does that mean PP?

Anonymous wrote:Great, now her son is "passing."

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Anonymous wrote:Claims early intervention and ABA cured her son. Most likely, he never had it anyway. But she was lucky to have money to throw at his issues.

http://blackdoctor.org/505945/wow-toni-braxton-reveals-son-no-longer-has-autism/

Home » Health Conditions » Brain and Nervous System » WOW! Toni Braxton Reveals Son No Longer Has Autism


Award-winning singer Toni Braxton just revealed that her youngest son who was diagnosed as autistic at age two, has been cured of the condition.

In a recent sit down with “Access Hollywood,” she shared that now, her youngest son Diezel, who is 13-years-old, is no longer on the autism spectrum.

“My youngest son— everyone knows— my son Diezel suffers from—or I should say suffered from Autism,” explains Braxton. “I am one of the lucky parents. Early diagnosis changes everything. I will tell you this. I will shout it from the rooftops. My son Diezel is off the spectrum. Off the spectrum being autistic. Susan Wright, who unfortunately just passed from Autism Speaks, when she found out about my son and I she called me immediately and said ‘Get him in this program. Do this, do that.’ She’s been an advocate in helping me so much. I miss her already. I mean, I can’t believe she’s gone.”

OP you need to understand that the diagnostic criteria for labeling/diagnosing someone on the Autism Spectrum is always changing - it widens then narrows then widens again. What really matters is that her son is well-adjusted, functioning person now! Good for her, good for him - and I think she should be congratulated for shouting out that EARLY INTERVENTION IS EVERYTHING!

That is the real take-away message of what she said - Early Intervention makes a lot of difference. And she didn't say cure by the way, she said "off the spectrum".

Agree it is partly the criteria and partly we are diagnosing too early but a child who can outgrow it, early intervention or not, never had autism. I don't like that bragging as it makes others whose kids have true autism or other major issues that they cannot outgrow feel like they are not doing enough or inadequate as parents as why can't they cure their kids? Those parents do all kinds of quick fixes with the trendy diet and other stuff that generally doesn't work.

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Anonymous wrote:Claims early intervention and ABA cured her son. Most likely, he never had it anyway. But she was lucky to have money to throw at his issues.

http://blackdoctor.org/505945/wow-toni-braxton-reveals-son-no-longer-has-autism/

Home » Health Conditions » Brain and Nervous System » WOW! Toni Braxton Reveals Son No Longer Has Autism


Award-winning singer Toni Braxton just revealed that her youngest son who was diagnosed as autistic at age two, has been cured of the condition.

In a recent sit down with “Access Hollywood,” she shared that now, her youngest son Diezel, who is 13-years-old, is no longer on the autism spectrum.

“My youngest son— everyone knows— my son Diezel suffers from—or I should say suffered from Autism,” explains Braxton. “I am one of the lucky parents. Early diagnosis changes everything. I will tell you this. I will shout it from the rooftops. My son Diezel is off the spectrum. Off the spectrum being autistic. Susan Wright, who unfortunately just passed from Autism Speaks, when she found out about my son and I she called me immediately and said ‘Get him in this program. Do this, do that.’ She’s been an advocate in helping me so much. I miss her already. I mean, I can’t believe she’s gone.”

OP you need to understand that the diagnostic criteria for labeling/diagnosing someone on the Autism Spectrum is always changing - it widens then narrows then widens again. What really matters is that her son is well-adjusted, functioning person now! Good for her, good for him - and I think she should be congratulated for shouting out that EARLY INTERVENTION IS EVERYTHING!

That is the real take-away message of what she said - Early Intervention makes a lot of difference. And she didn't say cure by the way, she said "off the spectrum".

Anonymous wrote:Claims early intervention and ABA cured her son. Most likely, he never had it anyway. But she was lucky to have money to throw at his issues.

http://blackdoctor.org/505945/wow-toni-braxton-reveals-son-no-longer-has-autism/

Home » Health Conditions » Brain and Nervous System » WOW! Toni Braxton Reveals Son No Longer Has Autism


Award-winning singer Toni Braxton just revealed that her youngest son who was diagnosed as autistic at age two, has been cured of the condition.

In a recent sit down with “Access Hollywood,” she shared that now, her youngest son Diezel, who is 13-years-old, is no longer on the autism spectrum.

“My youngest son— everyone knows— my son Diezel suffers from—or I should say suffered from Autism,” explains Braxton. “I am one of the lucky parents. Early diagnosis changes everything. I will tell you this. I will shout it from the rooftops. My son Diezel is off the spectrum. Off the spectrum being autistic. Susan Wright, who unfortunately just passed from Autism Speaks, when she found out about my son and I she called me immediately and said ‘Get him in this program. Do this, do that.’ She’s been an advocate in helping me so much. I miss her already. I mean, I can’t believe she’s gone.”

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Anonymous wrote:This website does not look reputable to me. Sorry.

She originally told Access Hollywood. It is all over the wen if you Google it.

Anonymous wrote:This website does not look reputable to me. Sorry.