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:
- the Alert program (the How's my Engine Running program)
- the Zones of Regulation and Social Thinking curriculum
- Son-Rise program
- Animal Assisted Psychotherapy or Pet Therapy
- Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Horseback Riding
- Social Stories
- Comic Strip Conversations
- SELF (Safety, Emotions, Loss, and Future) model
- WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Special Populations (DBT-SP)
- The Emotion Regulation Skills System for Cognitively Challenged Clients
- ESCAPE-Now curriculum
- Circles program
- Collaborative Problem Solving model
- Motivational Interviewing
- Supportive Humanistic Psychotherapy
- Trauma Informed Care
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Exposure Response Prevention (E/RP)
- Psychopharmacological Intervention
- 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.
