Autism awareness: Services for military families could be cut under DoD plan
In addition to the review, Dr. Cohen, along with myself and other clinicians, met with senior DoD health care officials in February 2020. We shared our concern about the DoD’s improper application of PDDBI and the unsupportable conclusions it drew. Nevertheless, the DoD’s actions went unchanged, and Dr. Cohen’s guidance went ignored as evidenced in DoD reports to Congress on June 12 and June 25, 2020. Given DoD remains steadfast in its misuse of the PDDBI, it seems that the Department’s analysis is only focused on money and not about identifying effective treatment for children with a...
Source: fayobserver.com