Autism Therapy - The Various Types

One of the world's most popular developmental disabilities is autism. It usually affects the person's social and communication skills. There are some treatments for autism that can improve the patient's developmental growth. Many patients have, in fact, benefited from therapeutic intervention. Among the commonly used and well-known therapies are RDI or Relationship Development Intervention, ABA or Applied Behavioral Analysis, and DIR/Floortime.

DIR/ Floortime

Made by Serena Wieder and Dr. Stanley Greenspan, the writer of Engaging Autism, this approach is comprehensive and interdisciplinary. It focuses more on the child's emotional development. Such approach to autism intervention is said to be child-centered. It involves not just Floortime specialists but parents as well. They both have to meet at the child's developmental level and agree to use his or her strengths to be able to form new skills. Floortime can be included into the child's daily habit to make the learning process appear more natural.

Relationship Development Intervention

This approach, which is designed by Dr. Steve Gutstein, gives more attention to the quality of life. More than just teaching an individual with life and social skills, this program also promotes genuine relationships and self-empowerment and creates an ability to thrive in such dynamic world. Its website said that this intervention program is parent-based because they are given tools to successfully teach not just Dynamic Intelligence skills but also children motivation. Among the Dynamic Intelligence Skills are dynamic analysis, flexible problem solving, experience sharing, episodic memory, resilience, and self-awareness.

Applied Behavior Analysis

It is considered as a systematic approach to evaluating behavior as well as applying interventions that changes the person's behavior. Practitioners will not qualify as Board Certified Behavior Analyst without a Master's degree and without meeting some criteria. Such approach is science-based and can do well in helping individuals learn new skills and curb improper behavior.

Play Therapy

Originally, this therapy is made to serve as a tool to provide young people with psychotherapy to help them cope with mental disorders, trauma, and anxiety. In the said context, play helps children to act their feelings out and discover some coping mechanisms. Specialists who use play therapy to their patients are actually giving them something similar to Floortime Therapy. Play Project is an additional therapeutic approach utilizing play as an instrument for developing skills in children with autism.

Sensory Integration Therapy

Autistic children usually find it hard to combine their senses to be able to make sense of the environment they are in. A type of occupational therapy, sensory integration therapy puts a child in a room that's specially designed to test and stimulate all his or her senses. The therapist closely works with the patient to promote movement inside the room. This autism therapy works in four principles:

1. The patient has to be successful in meeting the challenges presented via playful activities.

2. The autistic child gets used to fresh and useful tactics in response to the presented challenges.

3. The child with autism is willing to participate because the presented activities are fun

4. The choices of the child are utilized to set off therapeutic experiences in the session.

Sensory integration therapy is created based on the assumption that patient is either under-stimulated or overstimulated by his or her surroundings. It hence, aims to enhance the brain's ability to process the sensory information, making him or her function well in all his daily chores.

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