Wow, that gives me a lot to think about. I will wait until I receive the written report and see if there is any of that sort of data there and then ask them about some of those items specifically if not.
One other interesting thing is that when being evaluated for autism at 2.5 DS was given a speech eval and scored around a year ahead for receptive language and 2 years ahead for expressive, exactly the opposite of this current test. A 2.5 year old with the speech of a 4.5 year old I'm guessing would be more advanced than a 7 year old with the speech of a 9 year old and if so this would indicate that DS is performing worse over time in this area. Plus the receptive and expressive flip flopped and that doesn't seem quite normal.
DS does have a lot of ASDish symptoms. But he does not have lack of empathy/theory of mind deficits, lack of interest in sharing or showing, insistence on routine, restricted interests, common ASD behavioral problems like tantrums, etc. He is very socially oriented and wants to be with others all the time. He is more focused on friends at school than anything else and his favorite times are lunch and recess, often less preferred times for spectrum kids.
He does tend to be rigid/have trouble with transitions and get stuck on things, he does engage in pointless and repetitive behaviors (like paging through books or arranging things instead of playing with them appropriately), he does have a lot of trouble appropriately regulating his behavior and emotions. He is diagnosed with ADHD, TS, and ASD, but his school psych thinks a lot of behaviors are related to anxiety. I have done research and learned that there is something called Tourettic OCD which, along with his ADHD, totally explains his symptoms better than ASD ever did. Maybe he really does have a very mild ASD things going on, but it hardly seems like his primary area of concern educationally or behaviorally vs the severe ADHD and TS.
Overall he is one complex kid. I'll never forget our last district who wanted to put him in full time autistic support with "a bunch of kids just like him!" There can't be more than a handful of kids just like him in the world, let alone 8 of them in one low performing school district! Nevermind the fact that most of the kids he would have been attending school with were minimally verbal
