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This new awareness of the many disorders in the autism spectrum is such a positive development! Such a diagnosis can help a confused family understand where they are, and what their next step might be. A child's anxiety about "being different" can be greatly eased, and then strategies to cope with difficult, confusing social situations can be devised. And properly done, the school's special-education plan can combine the efforts of both teachers and health professionals, not to limit the child, but to set the stage for his success.
