Three links on autism and related subjects.

[conuly]

One on somebody whose child was not retarded.

One on an autistic woman who, as a child, wasn't really taught real material until she suffered from secondary disability that left her temporarily paralysed.

And one on ABA and the need for real control studies.

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[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Oh and one thing they said in passing at the developmental and disability clinic we go to is the reason they, well one of the reasons T is only considered mildly mr, is that his physical markers were all met. That kids who are mr are slow to walk and crawl and hop and things like that.

And then they also said that the mr dx is not something to consider permanent and made sure i understood the limitations of testing him. But that since he could medically be considered so we would have it written down to get the waivers.

I am glad that there they do not do the asd=mr thing, I had someone argue with me that I should see MORe doctors until I got one that understood that T was retarded.

AH people annoy me. But she was fired (she worked with the school system). She also wanted to use PECS with F because, well, he has an IEP so obviously he need PECS. WTF?