Autism and EI

DS is 2 yrs 1 month. He has been receiving ST for 5 months and will be starting special instruction next week. His hearing has been tested multiple times and sedate ABR reveals no loss.
Went to dev ped yesterday and he was diagnosed with autism. EI was contacted by my regular ped after diagnosis.
I've been told that the county does their own eval with a psychologist to confirm diagnosis before any services are changed.
That's fine and I accept that.
Has anyone had a child diagnosed with autism and then the county did not confirm the diagnosis and services were denied? Or is the diagnosis usually the same?

I am just wondering. I don't have the full report from dev ped (I will have it next week). And I am shell shocked by the diagnosis as I was not expecting this.

Thank you

Re: Autism and EI

This happened to us. The psychologist didn't agree ds was on the spectrum. You need 2 doctors dx before the county will accept it. The amount of services is based on the dx and the test scores.

I didn't want a school program. I looked around at a few schools just to be sure though. I didn't want Aba because I believed the psychologist. He was the one who did formal testing. We did increase the services we had.

It depends on what you believe as a mother. I didn't believe my ds was on the spectrum.

Autism and EI

It's been a while for EI for me but I know for CSE the if you are going to an approved doctor they have to accept the diagnosis. I also only had one doctor dx in EI but that was a few years ago so things may have changed. But please do not let yourself be hung up on a diagnosis. I am of the mind set of getting as much services as possible and if they want to say my DD has some sort of issue then so be it. It does not change how I see her and how she lives. An autism diagnosis is huge and opens up a lot of doors in terms of services.