Autism Treatment Intervention

Autism Treatment Intervention
The main goals of treatment are to lessen associated deficits and family distress, and to increase quality of life and functional independence.

No single treatment is best and treatment is typically tailored to the child's needs. Intensive, sustained special education programs and behavior therapy early in life can help children acquire self-care, social, and job skills claims that intervention by age two to three years is crucial are not substantiated.

Among the available approaches, applied behavior analysis (ABA) has demonstrated efficacy in promoting social and language development and in reducing behaviors that interfere with learning and cognitive functioning ABA focuses on teaching tasks one-on-one using the behaviorist principles of stimulus, response and reward.
Several programs are based on ABA. Some focus on discrete trial teaching; more-comprehensive ones use multiple assessment and intervention methods individually and dynamically.

Cognitive therapies based on comprehensive programs in treatment centers are a common alternative: for example, TEACCH focuses on structuring the physical environment and using visual supports for language development tasks.

A 2005 California study found that early intensive behavior analytic treatment, a form of ABA, was substantially more effective for preschool children with autism than the mixture of methods provided in many programs, but a 2007 British study found that home-based early intensive behavioral interventions, another ABA form, was no more effective than nursery-based eclectic programs.

The limited research on the effectiveness of adult residential programs shows mixed results.

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