I'm sorry KKI hasn't lived up to your expectations.
We didn't go to KKI, but I would be happy to share how our diagnostic process was done at our local children's hospital. Obviously our process is going to be different, since we were having a toddler/preschooler evaluated for ASD. But here is how it went:
DS was first seen by the developmental ped at age 2.5. At the first appointment we did a bunch of paperwork and the dev ped interacted with DS a little. We received a provisional diagnosis of PDD-NOS. (This was to allow DS to get services while the diagnostic process was going on.)
Over the course of several months, we had the following testing done:
- blood tests for genetic and metabolic disorders
- vision and hearing tests
- EEG to rule out siezure disorder
- OT eval
- Speech eval
- Evaluation by a child psychologist
Also, we filled out a some questionairres, as did DS's EI therapist and daycare teacher. They wanted adults from 3 different settings to participate in the paperwork.
About 6 months after our initial appointment, we saw the dev ped again and got an official diagnosis of PDD-NOS (later changed to Autistic Disorder).
Here is some interesting information from NIMH on how ADHD should be diagnosed:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publi...iagnosed.shtml
Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong