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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 hear people accuse schools of doing this but it doesn't make sense in my experience. If you label the kid, you create a legal obligation to deliver appropriate services. It's hard to see how a system is going to make money on that deal. Sure, some systems fight giving kids expensive services that the parents might want, but the parents can take them to court and sue using the diagnosis the system gave the kid. By testing and identifying the kid, you're creating an obligation that you wouldn't otherwise have.
I don't see how it's a good idea from the system's perspective, unless you really think the kid needs services that you can deliver.
I agree that more kids are identified today absolutely, and I suppose that can seem suspicious. However, I can't figure out why schools would do it except that they really think the kid has a disability and can benefit from services. I don't think any systems actually profit from their special ed programs bringing in more funding than they cost.
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