{"id":3780,"date":"2016-03-24T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T11:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/?page_id=3780"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:02:06","slug":"diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/?page_id=3780","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0066bf;\"><strong>What Can parents expect of a diagnostic evaluation<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>If ASD is suspected<\/strong>, a multidisciplinary evaluation should be conducted as soon as possible. During these evaluations, the child and parents may meet with a number of specialists, including a pediatric neurologist or developmental pediatrician, psychologist, speech-language pathologist, and occupational or physical therapist. Each professional will conduct part of the evaluation, and the results will be summarized in a written report containing these informations :<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Medical and developmental history<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Autism testing<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Psychological testing<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speech-language assessment<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Occupational or physical therapy assessment<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although there is no diagnostic laboratory test for ASD, tests are often recommended for the following reasons:<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To search for a cause<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To find out if there are other medical problems that might look like autism (e.g., hearing loss)<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To detect additional medical problems that might be co-existing with ASD<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Can parents expect of a diagnostic evaluation &nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If ASD is suspected, a multidisciplinary evaluation should be conducted as soon as possible. During these evaluations, the child and parents may meet with a number of specialists, including a pediatric neurologist or developmental pediatrician, psychologist, speech-language pathologist, and occupational or physical therapist. Each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3990,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780\/revisions\/5386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autismtrainingcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}