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Insightful Article by International Autism Expert Raun K. Kaufman Outlines Seven Holiday Do's and Don'ts for Helping Children on Autism Spectrum (Yahoo!)

SHEFFIELD, MA--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 17, 2007 -- The holidays can be especially stressful for families with children on the autism spectrum. International Autism authority Raun K. Kaufman, CEO of the Autism Treatment Center of America(TM), has written an insightful article, "Your Child With Autism: 7 Tips for Navigating the Holidays" to give parents advice on how to help children with autism.

Mr. Kaufman was diagnosed as severely autistic as a young child. He was fully cured with no trace of his former condition through the Autism Treatment Center of America's unique Son-Rise Program® which his parents developed. The unique Son-Rise Program:

-- Was created by parents for parents
-- Helps parents cure their children in some cases and bring about
significant improvement in almost all cases
-- Has worked for 25,000 families from 75 countries with a radical
departure from traditional behavior modification for autism
-- Takes a situation that can be divisive and uses it to unite families

Children on the autism spectrum experience the holidays in a very different way. "Your Child With Autism: 7 Tips for Navigating the Holidays" enables parents to help:

1. Let your child cope
2. Celebrate your child
3. Explain in advance
4. Give your family the heads-up
5. Designate a "Mellow Room"
6. Mimic an outing without leaving your home
7. Take the holiday spirit home

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Thank you Mr. Mark. These tips are for autistic adults too, not just kids! I didn't even know of Raun Kaufman. Now I'll have to google him.

Yesterday I had just a few routine downtown errands (grocery shopping, etc) and I my senses hurt from flashing holiday lights, screaming kids, swarming people - it's a zoo out there. I think I'll not go out in public until after the holiday....scary out there.

Those tips sound decent, but this:

I just do not seem to get enough of these interesting topics.

I remember watching the television docudrama Son-Rise in the late seventies or early eighties. Like many people living on the Autism Spectrum, (I always picture this as a rainbow) I do not understand the word "cure". If "cure" implies managing symptoms so that the person can function at his/her best ability I am all for a "cure". But I do not think of Autism as a disease, in the way as AIDS and cancers, to mentions only two.

Researching the Autism Spectrum, I hope, is more in tune with understanding this challenge. We will always be here, and if I may utilize an "in your face" expression: Get used to us. (This is out of character for me, but I wrote it, nonetheless.)