Getting Paid
How How Will The Therapist Get Paid If It Isn't Autism?
Many children whose symptoms significantly differ from classic autism--who belong only on the milder end of the autism spectrum, if they belong anywhere on the spectrum at all--are inaccurately ending up with serious autism diagnoses.
In The Atlantic, Behind The Autism Statistics:
Parents whose kids' challenges are less severe are often urged to accept a full-fledged autism diagnosis, as otherwise they would lose access to state-funded treatment, and might, down the line, end up ineligible for support services in public school. The result is that the autism statistics grow and grow.
In diagnoses without obvious physical pathology (i.e. anything in the DSM), doctors often give a diagnosis to a person with the express purpose of getting them benefits, e.g. Medicaid, school supports, etc.
Strange way of running a diagnosis, isn't it.
Many children whose symptoms significantly differ from classic autism--who belong only on the milder end of the autism spectrum, if they belong anywhere on the spectrum at all--are inaccurately ending up with serious autism diagnoses.
In The Atlantic, Behind The Autism Statistics:
Parents whose kids' challenges are less severe are often urged to accept a full-fledged autism diagnosis, as otherwise they would lose access to state-funded treatment, and might, down the line, end up ineligible for support services in public school. The result is that the autism statistics grow and grow.
In diagnoses without obvious physical pathology (i.e. anything in the DSM), doctors often give a diagnosis to a person with the express purpose of getting them benefits, e.g. Medicaid, school supports, etc.
Strange way of running a diagnosis, isn't it.
