Autism Therapy: home-based therapies

definition of home-based therapies: not yet defined.

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, by Grindle, CF, Kovshoff RP, Hastings RP, and Remington B., published in 2009, summarized Jun 11, 2009

Home-based therapies may be more beneficial to children with autism if therapists also provide parent support.

Parents are often involved with home-based early intensive behavior intervention (EIBI) for their children with autism. They say it helps them, their child, and the rest of the family. But there are difficulties: daily life activities along with the added therapy duties made some parents more stressed and they had less energy to continue the therapy. If therapy providers help support parents, home-based therapy may be carried out longer and be more helpful.

Jul 1, 2009

Dr. Robin McWilliam of the Siskin Children's Institute in Tennessee has partnered with the Army to promote his early intervention methods for children with autism and other developmental disabilities, for example Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS). McWilliam is training the Army's early interventionists in the use of routine-based interventions in developing home-based therapies for families. "I'm training Army people to go into the home, working toward empowering the parent to be the interventionist," Dr. McWilliam said. Routine-based interviews help families feel empowered in their child's treatment and helps them reintroduce a formerly deployed member back into the special-needs family.

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