The following information is from http://www.asatonline.org/for-parents/learn-more-about-specific-treatments/
There are many interventions offered for children with Autism, please ensure you seek out one that is proven to work in peer reviewed research.
Psychological, Educational and Therapeutic Interventions
What works:
Interventions based on Applied Behaviour Analysis (offered through Beanstalk)
Early Intensive Behavioural Treatment (offered through Beanstalk)
What needs more research:
- 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
What doesn’t work or is untested:
- Animal Therapy
Dolphin Therapy
Pet Therapy
Pet Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT)
Tomatis Method
Berard Method
Fast Forward
Earobics
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- 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 (Options)
- Vision Therapy
Irlen lenses
Glasses
Eye exercises
Rapid Eye Therapy
Ambient lenses
Yoked prisms
Biomedical Interventions:
What works or needs more research:
Selected Medications
What doesn’t work:
- Anti-Fungal Medication
Anti-Yeast Medication
Flagyl (metronidazole)
Diflucan (fluconazole)
Nystatin