Alphabetic List of Autism Interventions, Treatments and Therapies
This section contains an alphabetic list of interventions, and some specific techniques, designed to help people with autism spectrum disorders.
You may be able to find more information, including links to other parts of this website, by clicking on the title of an intervention.
If you know of an intervention which is not listed here please email info@researchautism.net.
Please note that we reserve the right to not include information about an intervention if we do not consider it appropriate.
Disclaimer
The fact that an intervention or technique is listed here does not necessarily mean that we support its use. Nor does it mean that there is any scientifically valid or reliable evidence behind it.
Over time we hope to evaluate each of the interventions and techniques in this section, providing a ranking which tells you the level of scientific evidence which supports or does not support its use. You can find details of the interventions we have already ranked in the list of Evaluated interventions
- Intervention Name
- Description
- Jakey-Olson Integrative Therapy
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Intervention which combines a form of behaviour modification and a form of meditation.
- JARs
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Acronym for Joint Action Routines, which are routine activities designed to encourage communication skills in children with autism.
- Job Placement
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Job placement refers to finding someone a job in an organisation in order to give them work experience.
- JobTIPS Employment Program
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The JobTIPS program is a multimedia employment training programme.
- Johansen Sound Therapy
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A form of auditory integration training, an intervention in which a person with autism listens to a selection of music which has been modified.
- Joint Action Routines
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Routine activities which are designed to encourage communication skills in children with autism.
- Joint Attention Intervention
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Interventions which are designed to increase joint attention, the process by which an infant learns to recognize the direction of an adult’s gaze, orient their own gaze to follow it, and then look in the same direction.
- Joint Engagement
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Joint engagement occurs when someone is involved with the
same object or event as another person. - JOIT
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Acronym for Jakey-Olson Integrative Therapy, an intervention which combines a form of behaviour modification and a form of meditation.
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Last Updated : 25/04/2013
