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Do Children Develop Autism At The Age Of 14?
Our child for 14 years has carried a diagnoisi of ADHD, Language and Speech Disorder, Borderline intellectual disability. He has been given this diagnosis by 4 complete assessments by 4 different psychologist. Our school district last week did testing and gave him diagnosis of Cognitive impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Do children develope Autism at the age of 14??
Thu, 20 Feb 2014
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Sometimes autism can be preexisting and not easily picked up by parents and primary Physician.
They Get picked up during screening.
It's just preexisting.
Take care
Best Regards
Dr Deepak Kishore
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Greetings of the day
Sometimes autism can be preexisting and not easily picked up by parents and primary Physician.
They Get picked up during screening.
It's just preexisting.
Take care
Best Regards
Dr Deepak Kishore
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