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The Beginning: When a Parent’s Instinct Knows Something is Wrong

The diagnostic odyssey rarely begins with a dramatic event. It starts with a quiet, persistent whisper in the back of a parent’s mind. It’s a feeling, a gut instinct, that something is not quite right. It might be the subtle clumsiness that other people dismiss, the slight delay in speech that the pediatrician says is “within the …