| Given the lack of interventions that can deliver cure for | | | | rewards on their behaviors. In general, this group of |
| patients of autism, they are limited to therapies that | | | | techniques has demonstrated results in controlled |
| can improve the quality of their lives. The main goal of | | | | environments, but it is not known whether these results |
| an autism behavior therapy is, in general, tri-fold - to | | | | will hold in actual settings. |
| lessen the impairments and distress associated with | | | | Structured teaching, short for TEACCH or Treatment |
| the symptoms, improve the lives of the patients, and | | | | and Education of Autistic and Related Communication |
| allow them to become more capable of functioning | | | | Handicapped Children, uses highly structured methods |
| independently. Although there are a lot of | | | | and environments to treat patients of autism. |
| contradictions in the efficacy of various therapies, | | | | Communication interventions or speech therapy, on the |
| evidence still suggests that conducting interventions is | | | | other hand, tries to resolve the patients' inability to |
| more preferable and relatively more effective at | | | | express themselves more effectively. One striking |
| achieving the aforementioned goals than not doing | | | | symptom of autism is speech impairment. This therapy |
| anything at all. There are a number of therapies | | | | attempts to help diminish, if not correct, speech |
| currently in use today; some of them are briefly | | | | development-related problems. |
| discussed below: | | | | Other educational interventions that are widely used |
| Educational interventions | | | | nowadays are patterning, pivotal response therapy, |
| Educational interventions are not exclusively focused in | | | | therapies that focus on Sensory Integration |
| helping patients of autism acquire the necessary skills | | | | Dysfunction, music therapy, animal-assisted therapy, a |
| to understand academic subjects as well as ready | | | | home-based program called Son-Rise, neurofeedback, |
| them to traditional school settings. Instead, these | | | | aversion or electric shock therapy, and others. |
| interventions give more weight to helping patients | | | | Parent-mediated interventions |
| develop skills that can make them more functional in | | | | This group of autism behavior therapies concern |
| most types of situations, cognitive skills to help them | | | | parents more than their autistic children. These |
| exercise mental functions, social skills to help them build | | | | commonly provide practical advises to make them |
| social relationships and respond better to social stimuli, | | | | more capable of handling their children's condition. |
| communication skills to develop their capacity to | | | | Medical management |
| interact with others and to use acceptable means of | | | | Medical management is a body of interventions that |
| expressing their ideas and feelings, to try to reduce | | | | involves the use of supplements, drugs, and changes in |
| their unwanted behaviors, along with others. | | | | diet to alter factors that are known to stimulate the |
| There are many educational interventions that can | | | | onset of the symptoms. Other medical management |
| demonstrate varying degrees of efficacy. Applied | | | | methods include chelation therapy, craniosacral |
| Behavior Analysis includes all other methods used in | | | | therapy, chiropatic, electroconvulsive therapy, stem cell |
| behavioral analysis. These basically objectively | | | | therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and prosthetics. |
| measure the observed behavior of autistic children | | | | To know which autism behavior therapy can help a |
| based on their responses to stimuli and the effects of | | | | patient best, it is advisable to seek medical advice. |