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Therapies Index

ABC data collection
Activities of Daily Living Skills (ADLS)
Adapted Physical Education (APE)
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
Applied Developmental Analysis (ADA) Therapy
Apraxia Therapy
Art Therapy
Articulation Therapy
Auditory Integration Training (AIT)
Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)
Aversive Therapies (ABA)

Behavioral-cognitive Therapy (see “Cognitive Behavior Therapy“)
Behavioral Intervention (and ABA)
Behavior Management
Biofeedback (also see Neuro-feedback)
Biomedical Treatments – Depakote – Diflucan

Case Management
Chelation Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Combined treatments
Communication Therapies
Couples Therapy (see Marriage Counseling)

Data Collection Systems
Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) Protocol
Delaware Autistic Program
Developmental Individual-Difference Relationship-Based Model (DIR)
Diets (see Casein Free and/or Gluten Free diets)
Direct Instruction
Discrete Trial Training (teaching) (DTT)
Dressing skills instruction
Dysphonia & breathing therapies

Early Intervention (EI)
Eating and food-related therapies (see Feeding Teams)
Eclectic approaches
Edison Responsive Environment (ERE)
Educating Children with Autism (National Research Council)
Executive Function Instruction
Expressive Language Therapy
Extinction
Eye contact behavioral programs

Facilitated Communication (FC)
Face discrimination techniques (cite the Yale stuff or Simon Baron-Cohen?)
Family Therapy
Fine Motor Therapies
Feeding Teams
Floortime
Forceful Intrusion
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
Functional Developmental Assessment (FDA)
Functional learning vs. non-Functional Learning
Functional Skills learning

Gluten-Free-and-Casein-Free (GFCF) diets
Gross Motor therapies
Group homes
Group instruction

Handwriting
Higashi School, Boston
Home-based programs (also see in-home programs)
Humor

Imitation, interventions using
Immunization Safety Review Committee
In-home programs (also see Home-based programs)
Incidental teaching
Inclusion
Institutionalization
Intensive services
Intervention Strategies to Entice Communication (see B. Prizant)
Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy

Joint Attention (in behavioral therapies)

Keyboarding

Learning Experiences: An Alternative Program (LEAP)
Lovaas Young Autism Project model

Mainstreaming
Megavitamin Therapies
Mirroring children’s behavior (under “Intervention” in Shirley Cohen)
Music Therapy

Natural Environment Instruction
Neuro-feedback (also see Biofeedback)
Nystatin

Occupational Therapy
One-to-one teaching
Oral-Motor programs
Orton-Gillingham

Parental Networking
Parent Management Techniques
Person-centered planning
Perspective Taking instruction
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
Pivotal Response Treatment
Play Therapy
Positive Behavioral Supports
Pragmatic Language Therapies
Prednisone
Prozac
Psychoanalytic Therapy (see Psychodynamic intervention)
Psychodynamic intervention
Psychotherapy
Problem Solving Instruction
Punishment

Reading Instructional Methods
Receptive Language Therapy
Relationship Development Instruction (RDI) (see Steven Gutstein in “people worth knowing about”)
Respite care services
Risperdal
Rote Learning (in behavioral instruction)

Secretin
Self Modeling
Self Monitoring
Sensory Integration (SI) Therapy; Jean Eyres
Social Development Instruction
Social Thinking! (Michelle Garcia Winner)
Son-Rise program; Options Institute
Speech Therapy
Squeeze Machine (see Temple Grandin in “people worth knowing about”)
Superflex (MGWinner)
Systematic Desensitization

Therapeutic Listening
Therapeutic Metronome
Theory of Mind activities (see Perspective Taking instruction)
Time-Out
Toilet Training
Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication-Handicapped Children (TEACCH)
Type to talk

Verbal Behavior Programs