Occupational Therapy and Autism Ranking:

Personal Accounts

This section provides personal accounts of occupational therapy for autistic people.

Personal accounts can be useful sources of information about the intervention but are not as scientifically valid or reliable as research trials. This may be especially true where the accounts are published by an organisation which might gain a financial advantage from the take-up of the intervention.

Please note that the views expressed in these personal accounts do not necessarily represent our views. 

According to Anderson (2008), a parental survey conducted by the Interactive Autism Network reported that following occupational therapy:

• 88% -- Symptoms improved
• 11% -- No change in symptoms
• 1% -- Symptoms worsened

Of those who said their child improved:

• 16% -- Reported a minimal level of improvement
• 49% -- Reported a moderate level of improvement
• 35% -- Reported a high or very high level of improvement

Updated

17 Jun 2022

Last Review

01 Dec 2016

Next Review

01 Nov 2022