Learn More About Specific Treatments

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Cognitive Enhancement Therapy

Developmental Therapies

Early Start Denver Model

Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, and Transactional Support (SCERTS)

Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)

Developmentally-based Individual-difference Relationship-based Intervention (DIR) Floor Time (Greenspan Method)

Music Therapy

Project TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication-handicapped Children)

Socialization related classes

Social Skills Groups

Social Stories

Recreational Sports/Exercise

Applied Verbal Behavior

Wilbarger Brushing Protocol

Animal Therapy

• Dolphin Therapy

• Pet Therapy

Art Therapy

Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT)

• Tomatis Method

• Berard Method

• Fast Forward

• Earobics

Bonding (Attachment) Therapies

• Gentle Teaching

Facilitated Communication

Glasses (see Vision Therapy)

Holding Therapy

Oral-Motor Training/Therapy

• Kaufman Method

• Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Targets (PROMPT)

• Rosenfeld-Johnson Method

Patterning

Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Play Therapy

Rapid Prompting Method (RPM)

Sensory Integrative Therapy (Sensory Integration, SI, or SIT)

Sensory-motor Therapies

Son-Rise Program® (Options)

Vision Therapy

• Irlen lenses

• Glasses

• Eye exercises

• Rapid Eye Therapy

• Ambient lenses

• Yoked prisms

Selected Medications

Anti-Fungal and Anti-Yeast Medication

• Anti-Yeast Medication

• Flagyl (metronidazole)

• Diflucan (fluconazole)

• Nystatin

Cannabis and Marijuana

Chelation Therapy

Complementary Alternative Medicine

Craniosacral Therapy

Essential Oils

Fecal Microbial Transplantation

Herbs and Homeopathic Treatments

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

• A review of a study testing the efficacy of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

• A review of a double-blind study on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

• A review of a randomized trial of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Iridology

Magnets

Marijuana

Neurofeedback Therapy

Secretin

Special Diets

• Gluten-free (wheat)

• Casein-Free (dairy)

• Gluten-Free Casein-Free Diet (GfCf Diet)

• Sugar free

• Removal of food dyes

• Foods thought to produce maladaptive behavior

• A review of a study on gluten-free, casein-free diets

• An analysis on the use of nutrients to support speech development

Vitamin and Supplement Therapy

• Vitamin A

• Vitamin B6

• Vitamin B12

• Vitamin C

• Vitamin D

• Magnesium

• Dimethylglycerine (DMG)

• Calcium

• Omega 3 Fatty Acids