1. General treatment < P > mainly refers to education and behavioral intervention training. The purpose of educational intervention is to cultivate children's self-care and independent living ability, reduce their disability, improve their quality of life, and strive to make some children have the ability to study, work and live independently after adulthood.
1. Intervention training and treatment
Principles of intervention training
Early long-term treatment: Early diagnosis, early intervention and long-term treatment should be given to children, with emphasis on daily intervention. Early educational intervention should also be carried out for suspicious children.
scientific system: doctors, teachers and families can use clear and effective methods to systematically educate and intervene children, which includes not only intervention training for the core symptoms of autism, but also training in promoting children's physical development, preventing and treating diseases, reducing nuisance behavior, improving intelligence, and promoting self-care ability and social adaptability.
individual training: doctors and teachers carry out planned individual training on the basis of evaluation for the problems of symptoms, intelligence and behavior of children with autism. For severe children, the teacher-student ratio in early training should be 1:1. Group training should also be grouped according to the development level and behavioral characteristics of children.
Family participation: Doctors and teachers should give all-round support and education to children's families to improve their family participation. Doctors will also help families evaluate the appropriateness and feasibility of educational intervention and guide them to choose scientific training methods. Family economic status, parents' mentality, environment and social support will all affect the prognosis of children. Parents should accept the facts and properly handle the relationship between children's educational intervention and life and work.
2. Intervention training methods
Behavior intervention based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) is the main method. Other intervention methods also include expanded and alternative communication, structured education (TEACCH) and interpersonal relationship development intervention (RDI).
two. Dietary supplements are effective in the treatment of
sulforaphane
, and more than 2 clinical studies have been carried out around the world. The research results published by Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 214 show that sulforaphane can effectively improve the core symptoms and behavioral problems of autism. Similar findings have been made in the psychiatric department of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in China.
the curative effect of vitamin D3
is still controversial, and comprehensive nutrition and dietary intervention and folinic acid may be effective.
three. Drug therapy < P > At present, there is no specific drug for the core symptoms of autism. Drug therapy is only an auxiliary symptomatic treatment, which can effectively improve the emotional and behavioral abnormalities of autistic patients, such as emotional instability, irritability, self-laughter, hyperactivity, self-injury and aggressive behavior.