Which Autism Treatments Are Working?
Saturday April 21, 2007
Recently, your child's behavior and communication skills have started to improve - but it's hard to tell why. Could it be the new diet she started three months ago? The music therapy she started last week? The new school? The new speech therapist? Or is she just growing and changing and gaining new skills on her own?
For parents with autistic children, it can be very hard to work out which treatment - if any - is making the difference. Since every child with autism is unique, your child's road to development may be different from anyone else's. And lacking an "autism guru" to help you make decisions, you are the one who has to decide what to try, and what's working best. This article lays out some guidelines for starting and evaluating the efficacy of treatments and interventions for your child with autism.
Have you tried any of these techniques to guide your decision-making? How have you decided which treatments were really effective for your child?
Comments
Excellent Guide!! I would just like to add that you need to Video bad days as well as good days. we have very little video footage from 2yrs to 3yrs (before diagnosis) we were too busy trying to deal with the behavior!!
Children model what they see in their environment. That’s why I think that for a child with autism is really important to be with mainstream children.
Children with autism can function around non-disable children as long as he/she has a support or interpreter.