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How many doubt that doctors can diagnosis. right?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 79256" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>My experience was very different. I made an appointment to discuss my concerns with my pediatrician. He took me seriously the first time and referred us to a developmental pediatrician who nailed the diagnosis on the head the first time (after taking in the data from the two speech/language clinics we were referred to). My difficult child was borderline Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) so it wasn't a slam dunk diagnosis and if my pediatrician had more of a gifted but difficult kid mentality he easily could have sent us the therapy/medication route. </p><p></p><p>The only thing I wished the developmental pediatrician had done differently was to refer us for a complete Occupational Therapist (OT) assessment right away--there were signs of both sensory and fine motor problems which it seemed he was compensating for but in reality it was us who was accomodating him. He could have greatly benefitted from starting therapy right away and I could have benefitted from the education.</p><p></p><p>More and more I think it's less about the *type* of specialist doing the diagnosis, but more about the quality and experience and thoroughness of the specific specialists you do see. I've mentioned here before that we have an ADHD clinic in a hospital in our region that I'd put up against anyone, including for their ability to pick up underlying and comorbid causes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 79256, member: 701"] My experience was very different. I made an appointment to discuss my concerns with my pediatrician. He took me seriously the first time and referred us to a developmental pediatrician who nailed the diagnosis on the head the first time (after taking in the data from the two speech/language clinics we were referred to). My difficult child was borderline Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) so it wasn't a slam dunk diagnosis and if my pediatrician had more of a gifted but difficult kid mentality he easily could have sent us the therapy/medication route. The only thing I wished the developmental pediatrician had done differently was to refer us for a complete Occupational Therapist (OT) assessment right away--there were signs of both sensory and fine motor problems which it seemed he was compensating for but in reality it was us who was accomodating him. He could have greatly benefitted from starting therapy right away and I could have benefitted from the education. More and more I think it's less about the *type* of specialist doing the diagnosis, but more about the quality and experience and thoroughness of the specific specialists you do see. I've mentioned here before that we have an ADHD clinic in a hospital in our region that I'd put up against anyone, including for their ability to pick up underlying and comorbid causes. [/QUOTE]
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