[Fwd: [Autismvoice Update] The Son-Rise New Frontiers Program]

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> Shortly before Thanksgiving, and I were fortunate enough to

> attend the Son-Rise New Frontiers Program in Sheffield

> Massachussetts.

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> I just want to say that we left highly inspired and informed with

> how to help our child. I highly recommend the Son-Rise program for

> autism. Son-Rise, like RDI, is very empowering for parents,

> because as a parent you realize how very important you are and how

> much influence you really have on your child's progress.

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> Most children with autism respond well to Son-Rise, because the

> program establishes trust quickly with the child and as a result,

> they are usually more willing to interact with you more and accept

> more because of that level of trust and interaction. I also love

> how there are no limits or expectations put on how far your child

> can go with this program. There is a healing that happens in your

> heart and mind for your child and for your family regarding what

> autism means to you through Son-Rise, and I'm very grateful for

> their approach.

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> Son-Rise, like RDI, focuses on the interpersonal, communication and

> flexibility goals first, then uses those skills to build other

> friendship and conversational skills, and focuses lastly on

> academics, reasoning, self-help, and motor skills.

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> New Frontiers is an advanced training program that builds on the

> foundation of the Son-Rise Start-Up. In New Frontiers, we learned

> specifics on how to establish program goals, and the techniques on

> how to achieve them, as well as looking at our own beliefs about

> what's possible.

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> We learned how to use both our child's activities and our

> activities to achieve our goals - to build length of interactional

> attention, to increase flexibility, to build language and

> communication skills, and ultimately to build friendship and

> conversational skills.

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> This is not done in a static way, but rather in a more flexible

> way, through interactive play and later on adding role plays,

> always adding to what we're doing and what we've done before. We

> learned how to keep growing and expanding our goals and activities

> to make them gradually more and more complex and changeable over

> time so that a child can learn how to deal with the world

> effectively within our program first.

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> We also learned how to be students of ourselves- regarding our

> feelings, attitudes and beliefs about our child, ourselves, our

> program, and how our child exists in our world. This is the only

> program out there that deals with the head and heart of the parent,

> and the people working with your child. You learn how to learn from

> yourself and from your child, how to examine and question your

> beliefs about what's possible and what's important, and how to

> ultimately be in a good place with all of this, while always trying

> for more.

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> The foundational idea of Son-Rise is total acceptance of the child

> as he is, while always extending kind invitations for more growth.

> Son-Rise goes with the child instead of against the child, so the

> child feels some control and trust in working and playing with you,

> and that helps the child to feel safe about gradually allowing new

> things in. Consequently, there are very few " no's " at the

> beginning. Once the child has mastered basic flexibility, social,

> and communication skills, that's when more " no's " start to come in.

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> In my experience, when a child is learning the basic stuff about

> how to be flexible, how to trust another, how to communicate and

> how to interpret and respond to the world around them, that you can

> use Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) or Son-Rise.

> However, just speaking from my own experience, Son-Rise is probably

> the easiest and quickest way to get through those really tough

> early stages with the least amount of resistance from your child.

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> I'm so glad that we looked into Son-Rise. It's a highly practical

> and healing way to remediate a child's autism.

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> Sinclair

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