Pediatric Massage for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been diagnosed and a diagnosis certificate has beenprovided. The diagnostic criteria is based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ofMental Disorders fifth version (DSM-V) criteria of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Score ofCARS≥30;
2. Aged 3-10, right-handedness ；
3. The parents (or other legal guardians) of participants to give consent and tocooperate with the treatment and data collection.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. The conventional treatment accepted currently does not belong to the following threecategories: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Educational intervention or Interpersonaldevelopment 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 psychiatricdiseases, genetic disease, or other severe systemic disease (such as history of severehead trauma, or stroke);
4. Seizure within the last year prior to enrolment, or the need for seizure medicationseither 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 receivingpediatric massage;
7. During the study period, parents will be required not to initiate any newinterventions or modify current interventions unless absolutely necessary. If a changemust be made, the parent is required to inform investigator, who decides whether thesubject should stop participating in the study based on situation.