Treatment of Autism
Treatment
As in all of the chronically ill, has to have a treatment of symptoms and complications of child and family support that allows the best possible quality of life of both. Specific aspects of treatment of the symptoms are:
1) Behavior Management: is to establish an effective training of behaviors, applying behavioral psychology. The main objective is to encourage desirable behavior and limit undesirable. Parents and educators should be trained to do.
2) Focus education: promoting the development of communicative language and social skills for what the schools to come the child should be provided with adequate equipment and staff, the long-term goal is for the child to function the way more effective and comfortable as possible in the least restrictive environment.3) Drug therapy: drugs are reserved for children who do not respond to other treatments or who have other associated symptoms.
4) Family support: now the professionals who are properly prepared for this support are few. Most pediatricians have not ever seen throughout his professional life in the need to attend an autistic child so that their skills are not initially large, although this can and will at the time that information needed in order to work properly with the families of these children.
Can receive the most support of the specialists involved in the child’s treatment (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and educators) and associations with autism and parents of autistic children.
It is now essential the work done by these associations, is likely to be due to the pressures they exert on government agencies and professionals involved, coupled with scientific advances, which can improve the long-term prognosis of these children.
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