So treatment for autism comes in a variety
of different ways.
It really depends on the individual abilities
and capabilities of the child because every
child has different strengths and limitations.
More common treatments for autism include
speech and language therapies to really help
the child to develop good receptive, expressive
language skills, pragmatic and social language
and communication skills.
Other therapies that are very common include
occupational therapy for fine motor movements
or physical therapy to help a child with their
gross motor movements.
Occupational therapies also help for a child
who has difficulties with sensory processing
and sensory input.
Another very common therapy is parent behavior
training and applied behavior analysis which
helps the child learn how to function day
to day through small, discrete learning tactics.
Sometimes parents ask does medication help
with autism.
Medication in and of itself does not help
to decrease some of the symptom that we see
of autism.
But if a child with autism is particularly
anxious or irritated or has difficulties with
hyperactivity sometimes these supplemental
medications can help abate those other symptoms.
So these are some of the more common behavior
strategies for treatments for children with
autism
