Mk, back to your original question re "good test for a 2.8 year old"... fwiw, my dd went through EI screening, and the way it works where we live is that you don't have a choice about the test - you get what they give and that's what every child gets. We have first a very general screening which includes a cognitive screening as well as motor (fine and gross), hearing, speech, vision. Then if your child scores *low* enough in any of the categories they are referred on for a more thorough eval in the area of concern (low functioning). They are also (in my area) *not* screening for giftedness, so if you were here, and your child was anywhere from low average to profoundly gifted in cognitive ability, the only testing he/she would qualify for is the initial screening, which amounts to about 5 minutes of answering some very basic questions - not anything that would delineate where your child's IQ lies, just enough of a screen to let you know whether or not there was significant issue.
polarbear
he is already getting EI therapies (OT, DT and ST) He easily qualified for all the EI therapies because he wouldn't cooperate with the evaluation team at all. At the same time even they noted that he wasn't an easy case and that all the results for him were really off and that we can't really go by them. ... the evaluation he has on Thursday is actual developmental therapist/psychiatrist/or whoever on the team that specializes in Autism down at one of the Chicago's hospitals. So it should be real diagnostic screening.
I hope they'll not only go by what they'll see on Thursday but also by videos that I have recorded so they get a better picture of him.
