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CTUSpecial Education

Alona M. SalvaSPED Cluster N4V4

Methods and materials for teaching exceptional children.

The Son-Rise Program®

Autism Treatment Center of America™



WHAT IS THE SON-RISE PROGRAM


1. innovative training programs for parents and professionals

2. caring for children challenged by Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and other developmental difficulties





A specific and comprehensive system of treatment and education designed to help families and caregivers enable their children to dramatically improve in all areas of learning, development, communication and skill acquisition





Highly effective educational techniques, strategies and principles for designing, implementing and maintaining a stimulating, high-energy, one-on-one, home-based, child-centered program.



What Makes The Son-Rise Program® Different?


The Son-Rise Program® was the first to suggest that children with these diagnoses had the potential for extraordinary healing and growth.





Treatment Innovations

Joining children, instead ofgoing against them





Treatment Innovations places parents as key

teachers, therapists and directors of their own programs and utilizes the home as the most nurturing environment in which to help their children.






Dared to suggest that respect and deep caring would be the most important factor impacting a child's motivation to learn






From the beginning, has made love and acceptance a meaningful part of every teaching process





Time-tested Approach

Creation of bonding, and a safe environment





How Do The Son-Rise Program® Principles and Techniques Benefit Children With Special Needs?

Joining in a child's repetitive and ritualistic behaviors supplies the key to unlocking the mystery of these behaviors and facilitates eye contact, social development and the inclusion of others in play






Utilizing a child's own motivation advances learning and builds the foundation for education and skill acquisition

Teaching through interactive play results in effective and meaningful socialization and communication






Using energy, excitement and enthusiasm engages the child and inspires a continuous love of learning and interaction

Employing a nonjudgmental and optimistic attitude maximizes the child's enjoyment, attention and desire throughout their program






Placing the parent as the child's most important and lasting resource provides a consistent and compelling focus for training, education and inspiration

Creating a safe, distraction-free work/play area facilitates the optimal environment for learning and growth.





HISTORY OF THE SON-RISE PROGRAM®

Barry ("Bears") Neil Kaufman; and

Samahria Lyte Kaufman, when their son,

Raun, - diagnosed as severely and incurably autistic





Principles for treating Autism

“Your child's potential is limitless”






“Autism is not a behavioral disorder”






“Motivation, not repetition, holds the key to all learning”






“Your child's ‘stimming’ behaviors have important meaning and value”






“The parent is the child's best resource”






“Your child can progress in the right environment”






“Parents and professionals are most effective when they feel comfortable with their child, optimistic about their child's capabilities and hopeful about their child's future”






“The program can be combined effectively with other complimentary therapies such as biomedical interventions, sensory integration therapy, dietary changes (gluten/casein-free),

Auditory Integration therapy and others”




Bears and Samahria




Samahria working with Raun in the First Son-Rise Program®





The Son-Rise Program® Social Curriculum

“the ability to socialize, create and sustain substantial interactive relationships with parents, siblings, peers, etc., is the fundamental challenge that children and adults

on the autistic spectrum face”





SOCIAL CURRICULUM

Eye contactCommunicationInteractive attention spanFlexibility





SOCIAL CURRICULUM





Autism Treatment Options -The Son-Rise Program

Lifestyle Minimum 30 minutes of 1:1 facilitation with your child.






Part Time Level 1 10-20 hrs a week 1:1 facilitation with your child in a specialized Son-Rise Program Play/Focus room Volunteers optionalLevel 2 20-30 hrs a week 1:1 facilitation with your child in a specialized Son-Rise Program Play/Focus room.

Volunteer participation






Full Time Level 1 30-40 hrs a week 1:1 facilitation with your child in a specialized Son-Rise Program Play/Focus room.Volunteer participationLevel 2 40-56 hrs a week 1:1 facilitation with your child in a specialized Son-Rise Program Play/Focus room.Volunteer participation





Complimentary Therapies -The Son-Rise Program

Bio-Medical InterventionsDietary InterventionsAuditory Training ProgramsSensory Integration InterventionsCranial Sacral TherapyThe Handle Program





Complimentary Therapies -The Son-Rise Program

Massage Therapy HomeopathyThe Listening Program®Neuro FeedbackThe Fast ForWord® ProgramTherapeutic Horseback Riding





Supplemental Interventions-The Son-Rise Program

VitaminsMineralsProbioticsessential fatty acids, etc. Enzyme Therapy - Highly recommend enzymes by Enzymedica® www.enzymedica.comThe Defeat Autism Now Protocol

http://www.enzymedica.com/





The Son-Rise Program® versus ABA

Understanding of AutismABA The Son-Rise Program

Sees Autism as a behavioral disorder, with behaviors to be either extinguished or reinforced

Sees Autism as a social interactivity disorder, where the central deficit is relating to other people

The child needs structure and must learn to sit appropriately, follow a schedule, and comply with requests

Helping the child to be flexible and spontaneous enables him/her to handle change and enjoy human interaction






Area of FocusABA The Son-Rise Program

Changing the behavior of the child Creating a relationship with the child

Seeks to “extinguish” the child’s repetitive “stimming” behavior

Uses “joining” technique to participate in the child’s repetitive behavior






Method of Teaching New Skills

ABA The Son-Rise ProgramRepetition – Uses discrete trials or similar method to prompt the child to perform a behavior (followed by a reward) over and over again until the child has demonstrated mastery

Motivation – Builds the child’s own interests into every game or activity so that the child is excited, “comes back for more,” generalizes skills, and relates naturally rather than robotically






Areas of LearningABA The Son-Rise Program

Often focuses on academic skills Always teaches socialization first






The Role of the Parents

ABA The Son-Rise ProgramProfessionals are the major players, with parents having a more observational role

Parents are given the most central role because their love, dedication, and experience with their child is unmatched






The Role of the Facilitator’s Attitude

ABA The Son-Rise ProgramSees attitude as largely irrelevant, with effective application of behavior shaping techniques being what matters

Sees attitude as vitally important, since having a non-judgmental and welcoming attitude determines whether the child feels safe and relaxed enough to interact and learn





The Son-Rise Program vs. Floortime/DIR and RDI

Repetitive “Stimming” Behaviors

Floortime/DIR The Son-Rise Program

Advocates being “playfully obstructive”, which means endeavoring to generate social interaction but playfully getting in the way of the child’s behavior so they have to interact with you to move you.

Advocates “joining”, which means entering the child’s world by enthusiastically participating in their repetitive behavior until the child interacts of their own volition. This is seen as central to creating a willing interpersonal connection.






Repetitive “Stimming” BehaviorsRDI The Son-Rise Program

Neither stops nor joins the child. Advocates "joining", as explained above.






Red and Green Lights: The Exclusive/Interactive Continuum

Floortime/DIR and RDI The Son-Rise Program

Seeks the child’s interaction regardless of the child’s “state.” Facilitators are taught to look for opportunities to create and build interaction as much as possible.

Teaches how to see, in each moment, where a child is on a continuum - from exclusive/in their own world (red lights) to interactive (green lights). During red lights, children are joined in their world. Teaching and challenging happens only when the child is giving a green light.






Celebration of the Child

RDI The Son-Rise ProgramDoes not believe in big celebrations of the child (particularly with regard to eye contact) because of a concern about doing anything which might be construed as ABA-type behavior-shaping reinforcement, which is seen as bleeding social interaction of most of its humanity. When the child engages in some way, the facilitator either remains silent or “spotlights” what the child did in a low-key manner.

Sees another way forward with a different kind of huge celebration which adds humanity. Celebrates eye contact, communication, flexibility, and engagement as magnificent and meaningful steps toward the world of others. Uses celebration to express a deep sense of gratitude that the child can understand, enhancing closeness and social engagement.






The Importance of AttitudeFloortime/DIR and RDI The Son-Rise Program

Sees attitude as largely irrelevant, with effective application of each program’s techniques being what matters.

Sees attitude as vitally important, since having a non-judgmental and welcoming attitude determines whether the child feels safe and relaxed enough to interact and learn. It also determines whether parents stick with a program.




Thank You™

Ref:

http://www.autismtreatmentcenter.org/contents/other_sections/floortime-rdi-son-rise-program.php

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