Abstract
Parents want to do everything they can to help their children with ASD. This includes an understandable need to not wait for research that provides solid evidence for an approach, which leads parents to complementary and alternative interventions that they find on the Internet. Our job is to help parents use their resources (time, energy, money) in ways that will provide the most benefit for their children and families. The more evidence available, the more likely their children will benefit. Interventions should be consistent with what we know about autism, child development, and brain development, even if the evidence is not completely solid. This chapter describes an approach to the myriad of implausible and plausible treatments for ASD that lack solid, evidence-based support.
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Iyama-Kurtycz, T. (2020). Alternative Interventions and the Placebo Effect. In: Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26531-1_13
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