100% correct and I completely agree.. Many children, as they grow and learn (or not learn or regress), have their diagnoses change. It was a reason I asked about Abbie having current evaluations within the last 3 years. If she is still running under a mental retardation diagnosis, it means she doesn’t have a current diagnosis evaluation (because that diagnosis is no longer acceptable). When you have a loved one with a mental health disorder, they need to be re-evaluated every 3 years, to keep their diagnosis paperwork updated because they can change..
Also, the reason he won’t change it to IDD is because he makes money off the Autism tag line. He goes to conferences to submit his “knowledge,” though who knows where that has came from? As far as I knew, they stuck her in a back room, while he worked and she ran the business, while just sending her to school for years. He wasn’t up googling, taking her to therapies, and then working as much as he could, constantly every day, to make sure she was succeeding...
I know because I seen the videos of when Abbie was little. She reminds me of my oldest daughter... My oldest does have Autism, LD/DD (not IDD because she can and is still learning as much as she can but is still behind some), has apraxia (went through 2-1/2 years of being non-verbal but I had her going to 35 hours of speech therapy and then working every day with her, at age 5-6 and she started to talk again), and lots of anxiety, sensory processing, etc... At the end of the day, I have busted my tail end off to get her to where she is at... I can say, I have dumped everything that I could into my child, even now that she is an teenager, she is still learning (she is 2 years from being a full adult).. I stayed up at night, researching, watching YouTube videos (not of families but educators), going to the library for books and research material, etc... We have successes, we have failures, we have regression but then we have victories.. What we don’t have? Shoving cameras in our kids faces, staying up editing videos, telling your kid(s) your to busy because you are “working” though just on the phone or editing videos, or anything else to distract us from our children. We are making sure that our children are thriving, learning and developing to their full potential... Sadly, I just don’t see that from them, which is horribly sad... Everytime they deny Abbie from playing with toys, making messes, and not disciplining her for bad behavior, they are doing her a disservice of learning and growing as a child..