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Originally Posted by 33girl
One of the girls who is having this issue with her daughter is a teacher herself with a Masters' degree. Part of the problem is they're in a rural area and the (small) school district, basically, wants to throw her into the learning disabled area, get the extra $$ from the state and be done with it. They don't want to keep working with her or testing her.
Also, I think that the increased awareness of autism has made parents & teachers more easily believe that children have it. Kinda like reading the Merck Manual and then thinking you have some horrid disease because you have one or two of the symptoms.
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I could see that side of it - if the relevant people in the school district aren't educated on the subject, then definitely, early intervention can have its drawbacks. I think that just speaks to a larger issue, that school districts need qualified people to be making these assessments.