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Interventions based on Applied Behavior Analysis

Early Intensive Behavioral Treatment

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

• Cognitive Enhancement Therapy

• Developmental Therapies

• 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

• 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

• 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