"I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill."

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Source : "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

Gerald Fischbach

#Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.”
“It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half”
“Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.”
“It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.”
“A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.”
“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.”
“...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.”
“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”

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