While some parents of children with autism embrace applied behavioral analysis (ABA), others opt for more flexible and integrative approaches.
Treatments parents use include: Floortime, the Denver model (speech & langauge therapy interwoven with peer relationships), Pivotal Response Training (rewards for requested behavior mingled with play), and the classroom centered TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication-handicapped CHildren).
Dr. Stanley Greenspan (GW University Medical School) suspects that different therapies all relate to the child's ability to focus. Dr. Stephen Gutstein (Texas) has developed a parent-centered "relationship development intervention" (RDI) program whose "strategy encourages 'experience-sharing'" with parents.
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