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This week I have DDs initial transition meeting to the school department on Tuesday and her six month developmental pediatrician follow up Wednesday. I really, really want to have her evaluated for autism especially since she recently mastered most the alphabet by sight (both lower case and upper case) along with beginning to read words off signs without any kind of formal instruction. Would you push both the school department and the developmental pediatrician concurrently to evaluate? Should I have the developmental pedi do the Eval, provide the report to the school department and see what they want to do with the findings? I'm not really sure how to proceed with this.

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She has additional traits that concern me. She stims and is minimally social with peers. I read the hyperlexia definition you posted and its not quite an exact fit. No echolalia. She communicates well (like will say mama, help. Milk. If she wanted a glass of milk). Will answer yes/no questions. She narrates a lot of what she sees. Like in the past hour she saw my dh working on the dishwasher. She pointed and said "dada tools". While she wasn't looking she grabbed a screw. She brought it to her toy car, pretended it was a key and put it in the ignition. She said car. Key. Vroom vroom. Really her deficit with expressive language is a small vocabulary for her age and difficulties constructing sentences. She speaks 100+ words but mostly still speaks in single words. She can put 2-3 words together, but is heard seldomly.
It's legit reading. Like she reads th word car off her carseat and read an open sign. Would not read a whole book if you gave it to her but would read off letters word by word.

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It kind of ended up being a moot point. In the transition meeting I mentioned I was very concerned about autism. They said they were going to see what the neurodevelopmental pedi tested for before the school psych would do her testing.