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My son, Jack was diagnosed with ASD privately in August 2016. We had taken him to our Pediatrician with concerns in November 2015. These concerns, largely to do with language & communication were brushed off, and it wasn’t until visiting an SLP in March 2016 that autism
even entered the storyline. Once diagnosed Jack started private ABA in October 2016.

I like to consider myself to be proactive. Informed. And still it took nearly a year to organize ourselves, educate ourselves, face waitlists even in the private sector in order to get
Jack the help he desperately needed. I will never forgive myself for that year, of failing to follow my gut. Of inaction while on a waitlist to be diagnosed. Of failing to see the signs earlier. That year, that year from the time Jack was 2.5, was lost. It could have been
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