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When a pediatrician told Dawn Barfield last summer that her 14-year-old daughter probably had autism, Barfield figured it would result in her daughter receiving extra services in school. Instead, Barfield found herself caught between a school district that said her daughter needed a formal autism diagnosis and diagnosticians who wouldn’t let her employer-based insurance cover […]

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