PDD vs PDDNOS
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| Fri, 04-11-2008 - 10:47am |
I spent over an hour yesterday morning with Brayden's wonderful special ed teacher. I found out she is currently going through the same thing I am with her daughter. However she got the diagnosis last week whereas I am still waiting for that, we only had a screening with suggested diagnosis done (eval waitlist is 18mo). She told me that a diagnosis of PDD-NOS is worse than a PDD diagnosis.... yes it is a recognized diagnosis but that care for NOS is much harder to get access to because it is listed as seperate from an ASD. I kinda freaked about this because I am pretty confident we will get the PDD-NOS dx. I do not want him to be mislabeled but at the same time I want him to have easy access to the care he needs. Has anyone had any experience with this? Have you heard this before? I want to know all I can before his eval so I can go into it once and be well informed of what should happen and what needs to happen. Thanks

thanks, I will have to ask her for more specifics on what she meant.
Hollyn,
This is how I see it:
I think of one of those trays you put in the drawer to organize your cutlery/flatware
PDD is the name of the whole tray. Everything that goes in the tray fits under PDD.
Within PDD, there are distinct compartments for Autism, Aspergers, CDD, and Rhetts. These kids go into the nice compartments like knives, forks, spoons and little spoons go into the cutlery tray.
Then you have the big long compartment on the side for things which don't quite fit in the neat compartments. *That's* PDD-NOS. The kids who are definitely flatware (i.e. PDD aka Autistic Spectrum) but don't quite fit in the other compartments.
-Paula
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Our official dx is PDD-NOS and they explained it to us like this....All ASD's are PDD's.
wish i could offer u some advice. but im currently in the exact same boat u are!!