Autism and Its Treatment

Child Psychology
Abstract
Autism is considered a neurobiological disorder. However its exact origin is not known. There is a variety of treatment approaches available. This paper introduces some of them and describes Applied Behavior Analysis and the Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR) Model in more detail. Up to this date we cannot say for sure which treatment is the best for a child born with autism.
Autism is one of the five disorders called Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). …