This week we have a family from french speaking Canada attending our one week Son-Rise Program Intensive. Their child, a wonderful 6 year old girl with autism, is verbal and speaks french so we work with her using a translator. At lunch times the translator will take a break leaving us to facilitate with the…
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Hi Bears, I would like to be your friend. Your have helped me to not judge myself. Now when I return home from The Son-Rise Program: New Frontiers at the Autism Treatment Center of America this Friday, I can stop judging my son Nathanael. When I feel alone and have no support and no one…
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Wonderful friends! I want to share with you some beautiful realizations I have had regarding the importance of choosing happiness when we want to help our autistic children, both in and out of the playroom. Our autism strategies and techniques are so powerful and important, but being grounded in a totally loving, happy, non-judgmental attitude…
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The Son Rise Program playroom is one of the places where I feel truly alive. I can do anything in the playroom! The best part of this is, the more fun I have, the more fun I believe the children have. This was demonstrated to me very well yesterday. I was joining this amazing young…
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I was recently shown this video of Christian the Lion. I was completely inspired by what I saw. The best part for me, relates to The Son-Rise Program. The two men who raised the lion were told not to have any hope of him remembering them. Many times families that I work with are told…
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Recently I have been talking to a number of parents who think that they have a time limit on how long they can help their children. One Mom said that she is nervous because her child is 12 years old, and she has only 2 years left until he is 14 to help him make…
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Hullo wonderful friends! I want to share an beautiful experience I had in the playroom today. The past two weeks our staff here have been lucky enough to work with the most incredible 32 year old man. His mum (a true Force of Nature!) is committed to starting a Son-Rise Program for him, still seeing…
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Today is a great day, my niece is 8 today, she is a lovely lively chatty and completely delightful lady who is a shinning example of giving gratitude and loving without restraint. Today I wake up to a very early morning call (she lives in England, America is 5 hours behind English time!), I picked…
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Please read this exchange from my facebook wall — Wow!! Yen K.O. Dear Bears, something I want to share with you. Lately, as I’ve been thinking that I’m a victim of all this craziness, my son who still struggles socially, sat beside me silently, put his arm around me just like that for 5-10 minutes.…
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Good Morning to each and everyone of you amazing and most lovely people! I am reading a book about Dipa Ma, who was one of the first women Buddhist masters. She believed that women are “better” at meditating than men, as they are more emotional and therefore have more flexible minds. Being a woman myself…
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