another question: Mental retardation label

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When my son went to the school's preschool program they had him labeled mental

retardation-nc. We pulled him out the 2nd year he would have been in and did

our own therapy program for awhile but plan on putting him back in this year.I

homeschool 4 other kids and don't think I can do another year with him and my

3yo with possible autism. It was just too much. Anyways, the doctor he saw

that diagnosed him with autism said I need to have the school remove the mental

retardation and put autism in its place. How would I go about doing that?

Does autism change the services he gets or is it the same regardless of the

label? Some of you wrote that the school took away your diagnosis of Autism.

What did you do? How can they take away a diagnosis given to a child by a

licensed physician? Now, I'm starting to get cold feet about public school.