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Alphabetic List of Interventions, Treatments and Therapies

This section contains an alphabetic list of interventions, and some specific techniques, designed to help autistic people.

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 any other items we should include in this section, please email info@informationautism.org.

Please note that we reserve the right not to include an item if we feel that it is not appropriate.

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Glossary Item Description
Therapeutic Listening

Therapeutic listening is a training programme which includes a form of auditory integration training.

Therapeutic Parenting

Therapeutic parenting is a form of attachment therapy, an extremely controversial group of therapies designed to help children with attachment disorders.

Therapeutic Recreation

Therapeutic recreation (TR) is the provision of recreational services based on individuals’ interests to improve functioning and help individuals become as active, healthy and independent as possible

Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic touch is an intervention in which the practitioner claims to alter the patient's energy field through an energy transfer that moves from the hands of the practitioner to the patient.

Theraplay

Theraplay is an alternative spelling of pheraplay, a form of relationship-based therapy, which uses play to emphasize the bond between parent and child.

Therapy

Therapy is a medical term meaning the treatment of a disease or condition.

Therapy Dog

A therapy dog is trained to provide comfort and affection to people in long-term care, hospitals, retirement homes, schools, mental health facilities, and other stressful situations. 

Thiamin or Thiamine

Thiamin is another term for Vitamin B-1, one of the B group of vitamins.

Thiamine Tetrahydrofurfuryl Disulfidean

Thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfidean is a synthetic form of allithiamine, which is a disulfide derivative of thiamine (Vitamin B-1), a substance that occurs naturally in garlic

Thioridazine

Thioridazine is a type of typical antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia and symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and hostility.

Thiotic Acid

Thiotic acid is another name for alpha lipoic acid, an antioxidant that is manufactured in the human body.

Thought-Bubble Training

Thought-bubble training is a form of theory of mind training, an intervention which teaches individuals how to work out what other people may be thinking and feeling

Tianeptine

Tianeptine is a type of antidepressant drug called a selective serotonin reuptake enhancer.

Time Delay

Time delay is a brief delay which occurs between the opportunity to use a skill and any additional instructions or prompts.

Tinted Lens

A tinted lens is a type of coloured filter, used to block the wavelengths of light to which an individual is sensitive.

TJ-54

TJ-54 is another term for yokukansan, a traditional Asian herbal medicine.

TMS

TMS is an acronym for transcranial magnetic stimulation, a procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain.

Tofranil

Tofranil is a brand name for imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant used to treat depression and also to prevent bedwetting in children.

ToM Training

ToM Training is another term for theory of mind training, an intervention which teaches individuals how to work out what other people may be thinking and feeling

Tomatis Method

The Tomatis method is a form of auditory integration in which a person with autism listens to a selection of music which has been modified.


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.

You can find details of the interventions we have already ranked in Our Evaluations of Autism Interventions, Treatments and Therapies.

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Updated
16 Jun 2022