Autism Therapies

 Other Autism Therapies

There is a plethora of therapies and treatment models available for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder, other than Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive behavioral support (PBS), to be used in conjunction with and separate from ABA and PBS, which are just as effective or more effective than ABA and PBS.

Treatments include:

1. the Alert program (the How's my Engine Running program)
2. the Zones of Regulation and Social Thinking curriculum
3. Son-Rise program
4. Animal Assisted Psychotherapy or Pet Therapy
5. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Horseback Riding
6. Social Stories
7. Comic Strip Conversations
8. SELF (Safety, Emotions, Loss, and Future) model
9. WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)
10. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Special Populations (DBT-SP)
11. The Emotion Regulation Skills System for Cognitively Challenged Clients
12. ESCAPE-Now curriculum
13. Circles program
14. Collaborative Problem Solving model
15. Motivational Interviewing
16. Supportive Humanistic Psychotherapy
17. Trauma Informed Care
18. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
19. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT)
20. Exposure Response Prevention (E/RP)
21. Psychopharmacological Intervention
22. The TEACCH approach 

Again, we need to not only provide but also promote other therapies in addition to ABA and PBS. Everyone is unique and ABA and PBS do not work for all individuals with Autism. It is not a one-size-fits-all situation.