Son-Rise (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Son-Rise is a home-based program for children with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities, which was developed by Barry Neil Kaufman and Samahria Lyte Kaufman for their once-alleged autistic son. The program is a parent-directed, relationship-based parallel play therapy. Parents are trained at a teaching institute how to be aware of their attitudes-a core principle of the therapy-for bonding and relationship building, as well as creating a low-stimulus, distraction-free playroom environment so the child could feel secure and in control of the over-stimulation. Parents and facilitators mimic a child's exclusive and restricted "stimming" behavior, until the child shows social cues for willing engagement. Then encouragement for more complex social activities is done in a noncoercive way. To acquire skill acquisition, the program uses the child's particular motivation for learning.