Description

This video by TV360 offers you expert advice on autism and the treatments available for children with autism.

Transcript

How Autism Can Be Treated Right now, there would be no therapies for autism that you could consider a sure fire cure in all cases. There are many treatment options. The really key issues are really diagnosis and early intervention because early in life is when the brain is most plastic and can therefore be modified. It's where the child is in learning language and social interaction and therefore it's important to intervene at that time and help the child catch up. The most effective and most wildly used interventions involve different kinds of behavioral therapy and behavioral modification. Other kinds of interventions involve use of communication devices such as typing or boards which has been really been remarkable. There’s a very wide range of therapeutic options out there, there are even drugs that one can give but this has to be done with consultation with a physician whose expert in the treatment of autism and has to be done with considerable care.