Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children

They're being s- excluded and bullied or all those kind of things.

Can you not make your organization full day?" So that was when I went, I got some additional training in TEACCH programs and all that, came back, created a full-day program.

That went on for a while, then we'd have parents going here for speech therapy, coming to us for ABA, going somewhere else for OT.

So I started bringing in a speech and language pathologist to run sessions at the center, even though it was an external kind of thing.

So before the creation of the ADI and Social Communication Questionnaire and the ADOS, what was the condition of the autism assessment like?

Well, I think-- I mean, it's interesting 'cause one of the things that TEACCH did in North Carolina was they were, they were one of the first groups to have, like, a standard assessment.

So they had something called the PEP, the Psychoeducational Profile.

And so the, um, there was a standard assessment, but it wasn't-- it didn't meet, like, the standards for testing ... that, you know, some of the famous tests like the SAT or the WISC or the, um, it, it didn't meet those standards.