Autism: no one treatment fits all

I AGREE with your recent editorial that autistic children will benefit from the Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) programme.

Nevertheless the data favouring one approach over others is not very robust. There is evidence of ABA benefiting children with inputs of up to 17 hours per week.

Another approach called Treatment Education Autistic Children, which teaches through visual learning, has shown short-term gains for pre-schoolers.