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| LeKiwi wrote: | | I'm not talking about the girl in this case in particular, I was responding to a comment made by Beau99. I don't know enough about the girl in this case in particular to comment fully, and I'm not too concerned about it either. |
Beau was talking about the girl, so what did you expect me to think?
Doctors know when there's a problem. The procedure is to refer them to a psychiatrist or a psychologist. Now if they aren't doing that it's not that the doctor doesn't know specifics. He's not a psychiatrist. The blame then switches to the parents for not insisting on a referral - no matter if it's Autism or some other psychological problem.
There are no excuses, and in Australia certainly it doesn't happen because doctors get into trouble for doing the wrong thing (something that doesn't happen in the US which for me is BS) so they take no chances and refer.
And parents can report psych's who do the wrong thing here, so again - it just doesn't happen anymore. And if it does it's not always the fault of the medical profession. |
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That's great that in your area they do that. Problem is, it isn't the same everywhere. My mother works with children with autism/ADHD/behavioural and learning disorders etc. She has kids referred to her by the bucketload by teachers who should have been diagnosed years ago as things are so obvious, yet they aren't - people just don't know what to look for. They think they're just naughty or slow. Kids start school these days at five years old not even knowing how to spell their own name or what the basic colours are or how to count to ten - you expect parents with kids like that to be able to tell something's not right? Or teachers to pick it up when they're having to teach them things parents should be teaching them years earlier? Things aren't as black and white as they were even ten years ago; as such, things such as behavioural, developmental and learning disorders don't get picked up as easily as they perhaps should be. It all gets very confused. You're right, there are no excuses, but unfortunately that doesn't change the fact that it happens.
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