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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there an alternate “therapy” we could use?  Is ABA the gold standard?  One place told me DC is late to start it, at age 8.  I guess what I’m saying is DC’s autism has somewhat flown under the radar this whole time so it can’t be severe.. While I totally agree with the diagnosis, I also tend to think DC doesn’t need as much support as the ABA clinics are suggesting.  Are there other routes/programs we could pursue?  15 hours/week of ABA just won’t work for the family…and especially for DC.  [/quote]

From your OP it sounds like he already has a busy schedule with the tutoring and speech, so it might be tough to add more. But alternatives to ABA are OT, speech therapy focusing on pragmatic language, and social skills classes.

We have a 5 yo with ASD1 and we do one hour weekly of OT with a therapist with a lot of experience with autism. We also do a weekly social skills class led by SLPs that uses the Social Thinking curricula (you may want to look into Superheroes Social Skills as well, I think it has a stronger parent component which might make it more effective - we are looking at this for the future).[/quote]

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