In-Home Autism Therapy Program

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My son Pranav is 3 years old and was diagnosed with Autism an year back. For the past one year, we have been running a home-based therapy program called Son-Rise Program®. From the time we discovered it, our son is making progress and each day seems like a miracle. From being a child with no language or eye-contact, he is now verbal... It is the most EFFECTIVE, respectful, fulfilling, and LOVING "therapy" we know of period! We are so blessed to have found this program. Son-Rise is a powerful, effective and totally unique treatment for children and adults challenged by Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), Asperger’s Syndrome and other developmental difficulties. It offers highly effective educational techniques, strategies and principles for designing, implementing and maintaining a stimulating one-on-one, home-based, child-centered program. The Son-Rise Program enables dramatic improvement in all areas of learning, development, communication and skill acquisition through gentle, caring and child-centered activities. For more information, please visit the Autism Treatment Center of America website WHAT MAKES SON-RISE UNIQUE AND EFFECTIVE? The Son-Rise Program is based on a really different way of working with kids. It is very child-centered and different from many traditional ways we learn to help our children on the autism spectrum. One of the ways we start is, our children show us the way IN and we show them the way OUT. Everyone is usually focused on the second part, but we really believe it is essential to cross the bridge into their world first. Rather than trying to force our children to conform to a world that they don’t understand, we want to start by understanding their world to see what they find fascinating, by entering their universe, so we can create a relationship with them. We do this because we see autism, not as a behavioral disorder, but as a relational-social disorder, which is really, a difficulty in creating relationships and interactions with other people. We want to help our children form a relationship with us, and we want them to want to form a relationship, not just because they have to do it, to get us “out of their face”. So we start by joining them in their world. This is best accomplished by genuinely joining our children when they are doing their “stims” or “isms”. These "isms" can be defined by any activity or behavior our child is doing that is exclusive and repetitive, (i.e. running back and forth, spinning objects, talking about a subject in circles, repeating lines from a movie). We select volunteers who are enthusiastic about becoming happier as a lifestyle, who are interested in exploring themselves using the Option Process® Dialogue and who clearly make happiness a priority in their lives (by exploring discomforts and negative beliefs). No previous experience necessary