Pivotal Response Training targets crucial or pivotal skills that are basic elements of other skill sets. Its purpose is to help the child adapt or generalize the concepts learned in ABA therapy into everyday life.

Physical Therapy helps people with autism who have motor delays and have a weak muscle tone to build up strength, coordination, and have basic sports skills.

Social skills therapy focuses on improving a diagnosed child’s ability to interact appropriately with others. The goal of social therapy might be described as helping a child with autism to become indistinguishable from other non-autistic children. It teaches a special person how to converse, play, work and share with others according to socially accepted norms.

Occupational therapy helps children with autism develop skills that are useful for everyday living like handwriting, buttoning a shirt or tying shoelaces.

The SCERTS model can be started as early as diagnosis, and can be continued through the school years and later in life. It can still be applied after children grow up to be adults.

Making eye contact with the child and asking questions like, “Do you want this apple?” when the child simply says “apple.”

There is only a slight difference between the two models, with verbal behavior more intensive when it comes to language skills taught to children with autism.