Melissa Neff

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Yeah, so the typical

PDA client, you know, the way that I've come to recognize folks

with PDA in my practice is that there are sort of

Two kind of red flags that come up for me that make me wonder about PDA when when folks come into the office.

One and and this these actually kind of depend on the age of the person that's being assessed.

So let's say I'm assessing a ten year old child.

And then I'm also assessing an 18-year-old.

So a 10-year-old child with a typical PDA presentation is probably gonna come in with.

Um, you know, not a lot of reports of typical quote unquote autistic like behaviors where

You're gonna hear that these kids maybe have um one or two friends.

they love to do role play and pretend

and engage in a lot of you know s sort of superficial social context so

One of the things that we're looking for with typical autism spectrum disorders is

Can the child

And does the child make eye contact?

Do they, you know, answer when you when you talk back to them?

Kids with PDA often have, like I said, pretty good surface level social skills.

So they kind of don't seem as if they're on the spectrum when you initially meet them.

But but typically the behavioral piece will look something like.

My child is gifted and extremely intelligent and spends five hours a night reading books but won't go to school in the morning.

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