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matsuiny2004
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04 May 2008, 1:41 pm

Josie wrote:
I have heard you can have a learning disability and Aspergers?
I know for sure I don't have ADDH. They would have already labeled me with that a long time ago.
I am sorry for all the questions. I guess this is my obossion now.


actually there is only a 20% difference between NLD and aspergers



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04 May 2008, 3:23 pm

equinn wrote:
educational label on the IEP--gets him the services (checked box). Funny no one seems to know what this term means? Maybe I'm missusing it. I have heard it though in the special ed lingo but when I tried to look it up, I didn't find anything.
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I'm interning in a school for children with autism currently, and I've heard the term "mandate" used a lot. For instance, some kids have group mandates (they receive speech therapy in a group), while others have individual mandates (they receive speech therapy individually). Most of the kids have speech mandates (they receive speech), and only 3/120+ kids in the school don't.



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04 May 2008, 5:44 pm

NLD is not a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis. The concept of NLD was developed separately by neuropsychologists. Some folks, like this guy, think that the neuropsychologists were observing the same underlying condition as Asperger's - just labeling it differently.


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