Sunday, June 6, 2010

Diagnosis Pits Doctors vs. Schools


GILBERT, Ariz. -- A frustrated teacher and a child struggling with autism have combined for a tumultuous year for the Brunos.

The family spent months caught in an escalating dispute with Gilbert Public Schools officials about their son's disorder - autism - and his need for special services to help him succeed in school.

Their battle represents a long-standing divide between the educational and medical worlds, in which experts dispute the diagnoses of child disorders and the therapies kids need to do well in school.

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