At the last count there are almost 312 treatments and therapies out there, this includes complimentary activities like equine therapy, music and swimming. Some schools use only one others combined them.
For an effective Early Intervention you cannot have just one therapy or treatment. You sometimes need more than one to make sure that your child gets assistance in all areas of development.
Here is the list of treatments and therapies:
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Animal Assisted Therapy e.g. dogs, horses, dolphins, elephants etc
- Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Acheive! Programme
- Across-Task Schedule
- Active Support
- Activism
- Acupressure
- Acupuncture
- Adapted Responsive Teaching
- Adult Day Services
- Advancing Social-Communication and Play
- Aerobics
- Affective Atunement
- Aided Language Modelling
- Aided Language Stimulation
- AIM HI
- Auditory Integration Training (AIT)
- AIT Plus
- Alert Program
- Ambient Prism Lenses
- Amino Acid Therapy
- Art Therapy
- ASCEND Prgramme
- Aspirations programme
- Attachment Therapy
- Autism 1-2-3 Project
- Autism MEAL Plan
- AutismPro System
- Balance Training
- Barnardo Cygnet programme
- Barnardo’s Forward Steps Programme
- Barnet Early Autism Model (BEAM)
- Behavioural Interventions for Anxeity in Children with Autism (BIACA)
- Benefit Finding
- Bio-Cranial Therapy
- Bio-feedback
- Biomedical interventions
- Bowen Technique
- Brain Balance Programme
- Brain Gym
- Brain Child
- Brushing Technique
- Building Blocks programme
- Building Confidence Programme
- Camel Milk
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Cell Therapy
- Chelation
- Child Assisted Approach
- Child’s Talk
- Children’s Friendship Training Program
- Chinese Medicine
- Choreotherapy
- Chiropractic
- Chromotherapy
- Circle Time
- Coaching
- Collaborative Virtual Environment
- Colour Therapy
- Coloured lenses/filters
- Colourology
- Communication DEALL
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine e.g. Homeopathy
- Compliance Training
- Comprehensive Autism PRogram
- Computer Based Intervention
- Conductive Education
- Connect Therapy
- Cool Kids ASD Program
- Coping Cat Program
- Counselling
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Cuddle Time
- Cybertherapy
- Daily Life Therapy
- Dance Movement Therapy
- Davis Autism Approach
- DORE or DDAT programme
- Deep Pressure Therapy
- Dejian Intervention
- Denver Model
- Detoxification
- Developmental Reflexice Rehabilitation
- Developmental Social-Pragmatic Model
- Developmental Individual-Difference Relationship Based Model
- Dietary Supplements
- Dietary Changes e.g. Gluten free, allergen free, Casein free, lactose free etc
- DIR Method
- Direct Synchronous Bonding
- Discrete Trial Training
- Divine/Faith Healing
- Doman Therapy
- Douglas Developmental Disabilities Center PRogram
- Downing Technique
- Dramatherapy
- Dydadic Support Environment
- EARC Monarch Program
- Early Intervention Readiness Program (EIRP)
- Early Social Interaction Project
- Early Start Denver Model
- EarlyBird Plus Porgramme
- EarlyBird Programme
- Emotion-Based Social Skills Training programme (EBSST)
- ECHO Autism Project
- Electro-Convulsive Therapy
- Emotional Shuttling
- Enhancing Interactions Program
- Environmental Modification/ Support/ Arrangement
- EQUIP Programme
- Executive Function Training
- Exergaming
- FaceSay
- Facilitative Communication
- Facing Your Fears Programme
- Family Implemented TEACCH for Toddlers (FITT)
- Family Systems Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Fast ForWord
- Functional Communication Training
- Feldenkrais Method
- Feuerstein Technique
- Floortime
- Focus Parent Training
- Frameworks for Communication
- Frankfurt Early Intervention Programme
- Frankfurt Social Skills Training programme (KONTAKT)
- Gentle Containment
- Gentle Teaching
- Giant Steps Programme
- Greenspan Method
- Group Therapy
- Halliwick Method
- HANDLE Approach
- Hanen Program
- Healing Touch
- Helminthic Therapy
- Higashi
- Holding Therapy
- Home-Based Behaviour Intervention
- Hormonal Therapies
- Humanistic Therapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- I Believe in Me Not OCB! Programme
- Immuno Therapies
- Incredible Years
- Infant Start Programme
- Integrated Movement Therapy
- Integrated Play Groups Model
- Integrative Medicine
- Interpersonal Problem-Solving for Workplace Adaptation Programme
- Intervention in BASIS programme (iBASIS)
- Jakey-Olsen Integrative Therapy
- JobTIPS Employment Program
- Keyhole Early Intervention
- Light Therapies
- Lovaas Method
- Makaton
- Managing Repetitive Behaviours Programme
- Mand-Model Approach
- Manual Signing
- MAXout
- May Institute Program
- Melodic Based Communication Therapy
- Mediated Learning
- Mental State Reading
- Metamorphic Technique
- Milne Method
- Milieu Method
- Mimetics
- Mind-Body Interventions
- Miracle Mineral Solution
- Monarch Program
- More than Words Program
- Motor-Sensory Intervention
- Multi-modal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention (MASSI)
- Narrative Therapy
- Help! Programme
- Naturalistic Developmental Behavioural Interventions
- Naturopathy
- Neuro-linguistic Programming
- Neurofeedback Training
- Neuropsychotherapy
- Nova Scotia Early Intensive Behaviour Intervention Model
- Occupational Therapy
- Online and Applied system of Intervention Skills Distance Training Program
- Operant Conditioning
- Options Method
- Orthodox Medicine
- Osteopathy
- Packing Therapy
- Paired Associative Learning
- Parent Support Programmes
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
- Parent-Child Training Program
- Pathways Early Autism Intervention
- Patterning Therapies
- Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
- Peer Mediated Approach (PEER)
- PEGASUS programme
- Penguin for Autism Behavioral Interventions
- Perceptual Isolation Therapy
- Personal Frequency Modulation System
- Perspectives Program
- Physiotherapy
- Picture-In-The-Head Training
- Pivotal Response Training
- PLAY Project
- PlayWisely Program
- Portage Intervention
- Precision Teaching
- Preschoolers with Autism Programme
- Pressure Vest
- Prevent-teach-reinforce Model
- Princeton Child Development Institute Early Intervention Program
- Problem-Solving Skills training
- Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills
- Project SEARCH plus ASD Supports
- PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)
- Psychiatry
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Psychology
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychotherapy
- Rage Reduction Therapy
- Rapid Prompting Method (RPM)
- ReAttach Intervention
- Rebound Therapy
- Reciprocal Imitation Training
- Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)
- Respite Care
- Option 236Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD)
- Responsive Teaching
- Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy
- Riding the Rapids: Living with Autism or Disability
- Rolfing
- Rutger’s Autism Program
- Sandplay Therapy
- Sauna Therapy
- SCERTS Model
- Option 245Scotson Technique
- Seaver-NETT
- Self-Advocacy
- Self-Injurious Behavior Inhibiting System
- Sensory Deprivation Therapy
- Sensory Integration Therapy
- Shaping
- Shared Reading
- Sheltered Employment
- Sheltered Housing
- Shiatsu
- Sign Language
- Simulation Training
- Sleeping Sound Program
- Snoezelen
- Social Adjustment Enhancement Intervention
- Social Cognitiion and Interaction Training-Autism Program
- Social Cognition Training Program
- Social Communication Intervention
- Option 264Social Emotional Neuroscience Endocrinology
- Social Skills and Theory of Mind Training
- Social Skills Groups
- Social Stories
- Social-Pragmatic Joint Attention Focused Parent Training Programme
- Son-Rise programme
- SOSTA-FRA programme
- Speech and Language Pathology (Speech Therapy)
- Option 272Speech Generating Device
- SpeechPromprs
- SPELL framework
- Spiritual Healing
- Squeeze Machine
- STAR Program
- Stener Waldorf Approach
- STEP-ASD
- Stepping Stones Triple P
- Stronger Families Project
- Structural Integration
- summerMAX program
- Support Group
- Supported Employment
- Supported Living
- Symbolic Play Intervention
- Systemic Therapy
- Tackling Teenage Training programme
- TAGteach
- Tai Chi
- TalkAbility Program
- Task Analysis
- TEACCH
- Thought Bubble Training
- Tomatis Method
- Trampoline Therapy
- TreeHouse School Model
- Unstuck and On Target
- Van Dijk Curricular Approach
- Video Modelling
- Visual Schedules
- Visual Supports
- Voice Output Communication Aid (VOCAs)
- Vojta Method
- Walden Programs
- Watsu
- Weighted Items e.g. Blanket, vest etc
- Welch Method
- Wilbarger Technique
- Work Systems
- Yoga Therapy