What kind of therapies helped at what age?

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Hi,

As a mom of kid on the spectrum, I am having lots of difficulty choosing what therapy to offer to the kid. From ABA to verbal behavior to speech to OT to PT to social skills training, it is quite exhausting.

What therapies did you believe helped you the most? And what age do you believe is the right age?

I personally do not condone any therapies that have to do with behavior modification because autism is not a behavioral problem so treating it like one is only going to do psychological damage to someone with autism. By basically telling them everything about how they function, process things, interact, and express themself is bad and that normal people are good so unless they can pass for normal they are bad and should be punished.

Speech therapy could be good depending on how severe speech/communication issues are.

But yeah I am not an expert I just know trying to punish and reward the autism out of someone would not be the way...and that is what behavior modification type therapies would do.

I wasn't in any type of therapy and I turned out okay. If I was in any type of therapy, I would have shut down and been uncooperative.

The best way would be to observe your child, the way he functions, then design what suits him. Dr Grandin says you should use your child special interest to help him.

I agree with Lyll on this topic. As for myself I have tryed going to different types of therapies or groups and I just tend to get overwhelmed and shut down. BTW i'm 25 years old.

Speech therapy was good for me. I did speech therapy from 4 through 14. You need to find someone who understands the particular problems though, because not all of mine did.


I really wish I got OT. I'm looking into getting some now to help with sensory integration.