Hi, my child was diagnosed with autism about 9 years ago. Now he needs an updated adaptive testing score (which should be part of autism evaluation). He also need an adjustment disorder evaluation. I called a lot of places and none of them provide these two evaluations. Anyone knows which place can do that?

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Fanlin Zhu

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