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<blockquote data-quote="allhaileris" data-source="post: 234367" data-attributes="member: 5663"><p>I'm kind of in the same place you are now (but at a younger age, E is 6), thinking my daughter has Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)-Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and we've just started a new round of evaluations. A lot of people have brushed me off saying that no, she can't have it, but I think she's just at the top range. Her teacher this year has a child herself that is high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and agrees with us. Just Wed husband took her into the therapist at our local regional center and she showed husband a chart with different behaviors, husband said everything except a few and the therapist said she indeed may be high functiong Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Now we just have to wait a couple more months for the full evaluation to take place. </p><p> </p><p>For us I think it's important for her school to have the correct diagnosis for services. We are lucky that we didn't have to fight for continued therapy & aides with her recent IEP, they really know she needs to stay in that system. But, to have the correct diagnosis will help them more. Right now she phased out of needing it for a speech delay, but they kept her in for an undefined learning disability. </p><p> </p><p>She was originally diagnosed with ODD, and I think they just slapped that label on her because "they" weren't around her enough to see the strange behaviors at home. Like yesterday morning when we were getting ready to leave, husband got upset at E for something, and while she waited by the door for us she sat and lined up and matched all the shoes.</p><p> </p><p>I think once you have the correct diagnosis, it's better because you can move foward and hopefully stop fighting the system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="allhaileris, post: 234367, member: 5663"] I'm kind of in the same place you are now (but at a younger age, E is 6), thinking my daughter has Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)-Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and we've just started a new round of evaluations. A lot of people have brushed me off saying that no, she can't have it, but I think she's just at the top range. Her teacher this year has a child herself that is high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and agrees with us. Just Wed husband took her into the therapist at our local regional center and she showed husband a chart with different behaviors, husband said everything except a few and the therapist said she indeed may be high functiong Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Now we just have to wait a couple more months for the full evaluation to take place. For us I think it's important for her school to have the correct diagnosis for services. We are lucky that we didn't have to fight for continued therapy & aides with her recent IEP, they really know she needs to stay in that system. But, to have the correct diagnosis will help them more. Right now she phased out of needing it for a speech delay, but they kept her in for an undefined learning disability. She was originally diagnosed with ODD, and I think they just slapped that label on her because "they" weren't around her enough to see the strange behaviors at home. Like yesterday morning when we were getting ready to leave, husband got upset at E for something, and while she waited by the door for us she sat and lined up and matched all the shoes. I think once you have the correct diagnosis, it's better because you can move foward and hopefully stop fighting the system. [/QUOTE]
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