Therapies and supports can help autistic children develop well.

The Raising Children Network have created a summary of the main types of therapies and supports for autistic children, using behavioural, developmental, family-based, medical and alternative categories.

This is just one way to categorise therapies and supports, and you’ll find that some therapies and supports are based on or combine others.

In each category below, we also look at what the research says about whether therapies and supports help autistic children. Behavioural and developmental therapies and supports seem to help the most. And therapies and supports are most helpful when there’s family input.

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