We love our pediatrician! When she saw us she apologize for what happened and told us to never let something like that happen again and to always ask to talk directly to her if we couldn’t get something we need. Specially things important like this. Then she asked what made us believe Guto was autistic since he always passed the screenings done on his milestones appointments. I started to cry and then began to tell her our concerns. She agreed they were real. Some of the reasons we gave her were not questions asked during the screenings in the office but were definitely red flags.
She asked if there was any place in particular that I wanted to get the assessment done. During my research I had found that the Denis Developmental Center (DDC) was the best place in town to have this kind of assessment done, but the waiting list was about 9-18 months. We didn’t have that much time so we decided to go with a different clinic in order to get some answers right away. We did get on DDC’s waiting list and just hoped our wait would not be as long as they said.
So we finally got our referral and in the middle of March we got an appointment scheduled. I could finally breathe a little easier and let my guard down for a while.
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