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How is Autism diagnosed?
How Autism is diagnosed: tests, specialists and the diagnostic journey, told by patients and reviewed against medical sources.
Going through the DSM Criteria
Posted Sep 29, 2019 by Amy 13500
I have no idea how it works for kids, but the way I was diagnosed involved a long, tedious process of convincing doctors to actually do the test and humour me. I then did the ADOS-2 which confirmed it, along with an IQ test. I then had to ask for an official paper diagnosis because they thought all I wanted was accommodations for exams. I still haven't heard back yet.
Posted Dec 9, 2019 by alexanderyanj 2520
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By specific tests carried out by CRA ( centre de resources autism ) CAMSP, Paedo-psychiatrist , interviewed , psychologist...
Posted Sep 30, 2017 by Lili 1000
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For the diagnosis of ASD is carried out successfully it is essential that the health professional has enough experience in the subject and who understand deeply about the childish behavior in general. In addition, it needs to be very attentive to the life history of the patient, which should begin even before the child is born, including so the pre-christmas season, the training of the child in the womb and the birth. Until the moment, there are no examinations or psychological tests that determine if the child is or is not within the spectrum of autism, but are currently used in the diagnosis some instruments described in the DSM - V: the Scale of assessment and the traits of autism (ATA), the Inventory behavior autísticos (ABC), the Questionnaire for the verification of autism (ASQ), the diagnostic Criteria for autism disorder, the diagnostic Criteria for Asperger disorder and Criteria for diagnosis of disorder and global development, without other specification.
Posted Oct 1, 2017 by Chadya 900
