Model | Description |
Denver model | Uses play, interpersonal relationships, and activities to remediate core deficits in imitation, emotion sharing, theory of mind, and social perception |
Early Start Denver Model | Integrative program that uses a combination of developmental and relationship-based approaches and intensive applied behavior analytic (ABA) programming; includes parents as therapists |
Developmental Individual Difference (DIR), also called Floortime | Focuses on "floor time" play sessions and other strategies to enhance relationships and social interactions to facilitate emotional and cognitive development; seeks to address deficits in auditory processing, language, motor planning and sequencing, sensory modulation, and visual-spatial processing |
Milieu therapy | Focuses on teaching children new communication skills and behaviors in their natural environments |
More Than Words | Family-focused program that provides parents with practical tools to help their child communicate |
Relationship-development intervention (RDI) | Focuses on activities that elicit interactive behaviors to engage the child in a social relationship; utilizes play-based scenarios that draw out social behaviors and secondarily motivate the child to be more social |
Responsive teaching | Development curriculum implemented by parents during routine interactions in the child's natural environment to address cognitive, communication, and social needs |
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