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Confused, please help

Eleri4094

Eleri4094

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I'm confused, my nephew went for an autism assessment and it turns out that he is autistic but they wanted to do a check up today and I'm confused as to why they wanted to do that. My mom said it was to make sure that nothing changed but that's still confusing to me. Can anyone help make me understand why they do this? Do they do this with adults too?
 
Ame568 said:
Can anyone help make me understand why they do this?
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Different countries have different systems and we all do things in different ways so you've asked a bit of an open question here.

At first thought they might be thinking that autism isn't his only problem and want the opinion of another type of specialist.
 
By "checkup," do you mean a general physical?
They are usually performed annually.
If he had not had one in a while, it was just a good opportunity to do so.
They probably made sure that he was up to date on his vaccines, too.
 
Ame568 said:
I'm confused, my nephew went for an autism assessment and it turns out that he is autistic but they wanted to do a check up today and I'm confused as to why they wanted to do that. My mom said it was to make sure that nothing changed but that's still confusing to me. Can anyone help make me understand why they do this? Do they do this with adults too?
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My thoughts are the same as Outdated, my son had his assessment as an adult, and they only did a 2 hour testing on him and that was it! But in younger kids maybe they are trying to find which in particular he has since Autism is a wide variety of things. There is also more help out there for kids vs adults so maybe in the pursue of help they want to narrow it down to the best help for him. Just a guess though.
 
Ame568 said:
Yeah, he recently turned 4 years old
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Okay, I think it makes a lot of sense that his healthcare providers would want to see him frequently. Children at this stage are changing so quickly and they would want to monitor how he is developing and to keep track of either progress made or any new challenges that he is facing. Plus, he is approaching school-age and they will want to make sure that he is ready to attend school soon, if he is not already in a classroom.
 
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