The Son-Rise Program

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I just happened to have attended a Son-Rise seminar, and was very impressed with what I heard, so I thought I'd share it. My girlfriend, who is a teacher, was very impressed, and so was my son's teacher who specialises in special needs. I myself have some psychology training, and had already implemented some remotely similar methods long before I ever heard of Son-Rise. If anybody doubts the potential of these methods, you should come and see the difference in my son when he's with me, and when he's with his mother.

Why am I still despondent? Because I'm divorced, his mother is the main carer, and she's not interested in anybody's methods but her own (which is simply to ignore him).

Seems to me that parents of children with autism aren't wanting to "fix" their children. They are wanting what all parents want. For their children to develop and grow.

I think as adults with autism, or Aspergers, or just traits, it's easy to forget that, with kids, autism is not simply a difference, it's a developmental disorder.

Every single one of us who posts here has verbal abilities. Every one of us is able to communicate in words. And the vast majority of us, I think, use speech. Why is it wrong, then, when parents of autistic children want this same thing for their children?

Not the only example of something that parents want for their autistic children that we, here, pretty much all have.

The website is called autismtreatmentcenter.com. The website says that it is a treatment.

A treatment is not helping develop skills. A treatment is a fix for something.

You can treat malfunctioned skills, but you cannot treat autism. That is what we are saying is wrong. You have a good idea, but the context of such is out of place.