Pediatric Massage for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been diagnosed and a diagnosis certificate has been provided. The diagnostic criteria is based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth version (DSM-V) criteria of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Score of CARS≥30;

2. Aged 3-10, right-handedness ；

3. The parents (or other legal guardians) of participants to give consent and to cooperate with the treatment and data collection.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. The conventional treatment accepted currently does not belong to the following three categories: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Educational intervention or Interpersonal development intervention;

2. Patients with any major treatment changes within 4 weeks prior to joining the study;

3. Patients or their parents with other neurodevelopmental disorders, severe psychiatric diseases, genetic disease, or other severe systemic disease (such as history of severe head trauma, or stroke);

4. Seizure within the last year prior to enrolment, or the need for seizure medications either at present or in the past;

5. Being involved in other clinical trials;

6. Patients received pediatric massage therapy in the past two months, or are receiving pediatric massage;

7. During the study period, parents will be required not to initiate any new interventions or modify current interventions unless absolutely necessary. If a change must be made, the parent is required to inform investigator, who decides whether the subject should stop participating in the study based on situation.