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The Son-Rise Program
Over the last 25 years our team of dedicated professionals have worked with more than 22,000 parents and professionals from around the world teaching them a system of treatment and education.
We have seen that:
- Children with Autism are capable of learning, communicating, experiencing real joy and happiness, and developing warm and satisfying relationships with the people in their lives.
- Children with Autism, no matter how severe, can be helped to experience intimacy, comfort, warmth and love.
- Children with Autism can learn to enjoy affection and to run toward a parent to be tickled, hugged or held.
- Children with Autism can learn to look into another person's eyes and laugh with genuine, shared delight.
We believe:
- Although your child may seem withdrawn and disconnected, he has the capacity to love, to laugh, to enjoy a cuddle or a tickle.
- Although your child may react aggressively or erratically, she can be helped to digest her environment so that smiles, hugs and a real sense of caring engagement are the norms, not the exceptions.
- Although your child may be falling behind in areas of development such as language, self-care skills and social skills, he is capable of learning and of having that learning process be enjoyable rather than stressful both for you and for him.
- Although your child may be highly verbal with a high I.Q. while experiencing huge struggles socially, she can learn to look into another person's eyes with shared joy, to laugh at jokes, to find diverse interests, and to become truly successful at building meaningful friendships
