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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychopharmacol. 2017 Dec 14;32(1):3–29. doi: 10.1177/0269881117741766

Consensus recommendations of non-pharmacological approaches for children and adolescents.

1. A specific social-communication intervention should be offered to children and adolescents according to their developmental level (A)
2. Social skills training should be offered to adolescents in either group or individual sessions (A)
3. Exclusion diets and secretin, chelation and hyperbaric oxygen therapy should not be used for the management of ASD in children or adolescents (D)