• DIR Floortime
• Sensory Integration
• Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
• Pediatric Interactive Oral Sensory Motor (IOSM) Treatment
• Therapeutic Listening
• Wilbarger's Deep Pressure Protocol / Individualized Sensory Diet
• Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT)
• Myofascial Release
• Yoga
• Craniosacral therapy
• Handwriting Without Tears

Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) is an effective behavioral treatment approach that utilizes direct individualized instruction, data analysis, and principals of learning and reinforcement with antecedent and consequence based interventions. Positive behavioral supports include the use of accommodations to meet the individual needs of children and their families to teach adaptive, functional skills. Opportunities for incidental learning, generalization and inclusion are incorporated into the treatment plan

Sensory Integration is a theory and treatment approach developed by Jean Ayres in the 1950's. It is defined as the ability of the central nervous system to organize and process information from different sensory channels in order to produce an appropriate response. Sensory Integration is the basis of all behavior. The central nervous system takes in information and enables the brain to register, filter out irrelevant information, integrate, organize and respond appropriately. It is the glue that essentially holds our level of arousal together. Sensory integration affects the quality of our acquisition of cognition, language, motor skills, self help skills, and social and emotional well being. There are seven senses. Vision, smell, touch, taste and auditory are our external senses. The vestibular and proprioceptive senses are the internal and less-known senses. The vestibular sense (sense of balance) and the proprioceptive sense (body awareness) provide us with a feeling of movement against gravity, and are the foundation of all of our senses. www.sinetwork.org

DIR Floortime - The DIR (Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based)/Floortime approach provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and treating children challenged by autism spectrum and related disorders. It focuses on helping children master the building blocks of relating, communicating and thinking, rather than on symptoms alone. The "D" is for Developmental. It is the ability to understand where the child is developmentally. This is critical to planning a treatment program. There are Six Developmental Milestones that describes the developmental milestones that every child must master for healthy emotional and intellectual growth. They are as follows: Self Regulation and the Interest in the World; Intimacy; Two-Way Communication; Complex Communication; Emotional; and Emotional Thinking. The "I" is for Individual-Difference. Each child has a unique way of taking in the world - sights, sounds, touch, etc - and responding to it. This approach helps to describe the various processing issues that make up a child's individual differences and that may be interfering with his ability to grow and learn. There are biological challenges that affect individual differences in regulatory capacities, which include sensory reactivity, sensory processing, motor planning and muscle tone. The "R" is for Relationship-Based, which is building relationships with primary caregivers is a critical element in helping a child return to a healthy developmental path. "Floortime" is a systematic way of working with a child to help him climb the developmental ladder, is the heart of what we call the developmental approach to therapy. It takes a child back to the very first milestone he may have missed and begins the developmental process anew. By working intensively with parents and therapists, the child can climb the ladder of milestones, one rung at a time, to begin to acquire the skills he is missing. www.floortime.org