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DeeDee posts good advice.

For what it's worth, I will also mention that the autism diagnosis is one of the ones that is most likely to generate access to a wide range of services, and also one of the ones that teachers are most likely to accept as accompanied by academic advancement (especially in the upper grades). Sometimes we actually have difficulty with teachers expecting children identified as autistic to all be savants of some sort.

And definitely a good BCBA is an excellent idea. Though a good school psych is trained to do FBAs, too.