draelynn wrote:
ASD's are a medical diagnosis and subject to strict privacy and disclosure laws - in the US at least. The 'label' is required to get services. No one - school, therapists, doctors, etc - are permitted to disclose your son's medical status to anyone without your consent and - after he's adult, not without his. I have also found that playing on this fear of labelling is a ploy to deny services for whatever reason a school may have. I can't even imagine why a therapist would even suggest such a thing.
I certainly didn't see it coming. It was very effective at throwing me off track, if that was what it was meant to do.
Or maybe the therapist honestly sees it that way. I don't know.
But now that I've had time to think about it and bounce it off of y'all, I know it's crap. It's not going to go on his "permanent record" (dun dun duuuuuun!), is it?
The current plan is for them to watch him for a few weeks then I can request an evaluation and the teachers will have input there.
In the meantime, he's already been teased, and the administration clearly took it seriously. I like that. He needs to learn to deal with people, but the people around him also need to learn to be civilized and he needs to be able to learn stuff at school without little monsters constantly distracting him. If they can give him social skills traning that actually works, he'll be way ahead of the game.
02 Sep 2011, 10:49 pm
