Autism Treatment Center of America®, have seen that children on the Autism

spectrum can:
 Learn to speak, even if they’ve never spoken.
 Experience real happiness, satisfaction, and love, even if they seem frustrated or
combative right now.
 Have deep, meaningful, caring relationships with others, even though they may have
appeared disconnected for years.
 Have fun, reciprocal conversations, even if they have a history of rigid
communication.
 Make close friends, even if they don’t start with the interest or the tools to do so.
 Live a life that may include college, dates, sports, jobs, hobbies, travel,
girlfriends/boyfriends – regardless of how many of these life experiences their parents have
been told were simply not possible.
The Son-Rise Program does not put limits on the possibilities for
your child We can help you to bring your child as far across the bridge from Autism to
recovery as possible. For some, this means complete recovery. For others, this means
improvements in their child’s development, human connection, communication, skill
acquisition and quality of life far beyond what most would have ever predicted.

The Son-Rise Program can provide help for Autism and teach you to:
 Establish a warm, interactive rapport with your child.
 Implement effective educational techniques.
 Enable your child to move beyond repetitive “stimming” behaviors.
 Move through challenging behaviors (such as tantrums or hitting).
 Become a confident teacher and advocate for your child.
 Motivate your child to learn–and to enjoy learning.
 Optimize your child’s learning environment.
 Jump-start speech and language development.
 Relax and have fun–without giving up what you want for yourself and your child.
 Recruit and train a team of volunteers and helpers.
 Find a sense of peace and comfort with your child’s present challenges.
 Create and sustain an attitude of hope and optimism about your child’s future.
We Can Help You! To receive FREE information about the Autism Treatment
Center of America AND a Free Initial Call with a Son-Rise Program Family
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What Makes The Son-Rise

Program Different?
Joining The crucial starting point for The Son-Rise Program and one of the first
principles taught to parents in the Start-Up course is called joining.  In fact, this marks
the crucial starting point for The Son-Rise Program and is one of the first principles we
teach parents in the Start-Up program (our introductory course).  Instead of
stopping a child’s repetitive “stimming” behaviors, we join in with
these behaviors.  Our children are performing their behaviors for reasons that are
important to them (and, as an increasing body of research shows, these behaviors often
serve a physiological purpose, as well).  When we show interest in what they are doing,
we establish a powerful bond around this common interest.  This is so important,
because we find repeatedly that children begin to display an interest in us when we
have an abiding interest in them.  What’s more, this interest is spontaneous, not
forced.  These children interact because they want to. Joining establishes a real
connection between a child and his or her parent or facilitator.  We have seen, over and
over again with the thousands of families with whom we’ve worked, that when children
on the autism spectrum are joined, they become less interested in their activity and
begin to look at us more, pay more attention to us, and even initiate interaction with
us. Motivation Once we have a child’s willing engagement, the door is open to help
that child to learn and grow.  One of our key teaching principles is to capitalize on
each child’s own motivation.  With children on the autism spectrum, traditional
learning modalities will rarely be motivating.  Therefore, we customize the presentation
of any curriculum to match each child’s highest areas of interest. Instead of pushing a
child repeat a task (and receive rewards) over and over again as a way to facilitate
mastery, we build games and activities around the interests the child already has (such
as Thomas the Tank engine, dinosaurs, or physical play).  This way, we work with each
child instead of trying to teach “against the grain.”  Thus, learning is exponentially
increased – with a unique and startling benefit: we have the child’s willing and excited
cooperation.  And when a child has learned something – not memorized it, but learned it
– it becomes a generalized skill that he/she can use spontaneously (rather than in a
more robotic manner). Socialization When it comes to creating child-specific goals,
helping children to achieve them, and tracking how far along each child is, we use The
Son-Rise Program Social Developmental Model.  This enables parents and
professionals to teach social goals (eye contact & nonverbal communication, verbal
communication, interactive attention span, and flexibility – what we call The Four
Fundamentals) before academic goals.  Academic goals, while important, will do
nothing to help our children overcome their central challenge of connecting with others
socially.  As first priority, do we want our children do have more math or more friends? 
Do we want our children to compensate for their socialization challenges or overcome
them? Attitude The single most overlooked area of autism treatment is attitude. 
Having a non-judgmental, welcoming, and optimistic attitude toward our child
determines whether he/she feels safe and relaxed enough to interact with us and learn. 
We see time and time again that children with autism tend to move away from people
they perceive as uncomfortable, agitated, or judging and towards
people they see as comfortable, easy, fun and non-judgmental.
Thus, our attitude can provide the impetus for a challenged child to
reach out to us, or it can unwittingly act to drive that child away. 
We spend time in our programs helping parents with their emotional
and attitudinal challenges because it really matters.

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