Treatment Options for Autism

This site details a number of psychological, educational, and therapeutic interventions:

  • Animal Therapy
  • Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
  • Art Therapy
  • Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT)
  • Augmentative Communication
  • Developmentally-based Individual-difference Relationship-based Intervention (DIR)
  • Facilitated Communication
  • Glasses
  • Music Therapy
  • Oral-Motor Training
  • Patterning
  • Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
  • Project TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related
    Communication-handicapped Children)
  • Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Play Therapy
  • Recreational Sports/Exercise
  • Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)
  • Sensory Integrative Therapy (Sensory Integration, SI, or SIT)
  • Socialization related classes
  • Social Stories
  • Son Rise
  • Video Modeling
  • Vision Therapy

Biomedical Interventions

  • Anti-Fungal Medication
  • Anti-Yeast Medication
  • Chelation Therapy
  • Craniosacral Therapy
  • Herbs and Homeopathic Treatments
  • Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
  • Magnets
  • Medications
  • Secretin
  • Special Diets
  • Vitamin and Supplement Therapy

Association for Science in Autism
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