Son-Rise
The Son-Rise program was developed by Samahria & Barry Neil Kaufman, who founded the Option Institute to promulgate their more general philosophy upon which the Son-Rise program is partially based, and to provide training in this treatment approach. It is a home-based program with emphasis on eye contact, accepting the child without judgment, and engaging the child in a noncoercive way. The Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) maintains a Description of the Son-Rise Program.
Criticism about the Son-Rise program revolves around the fact that there are no scientific studies that validate its claims. Critics have also pointed out that it may provide "false hope" to desperate parents.
Disorders & Disabilities
- ADHD
- Agoraphobia
- Angelman Syndrome
- Asperger Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Blindness
- Cerebral Palsy
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
- Cluttering
- Conduct Disorder
- Deafblindness
- Deafness
- Depression
- Development Delay
- Developmental Language Learning Impairments
- Down Syndrome
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dysphasia
- Dyspraxia
- Expressive Language Disorder
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Hyperlexia
- Language Delay
- Lisp
- Mitochondrial Disease
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- P.A.N.D.A.S.
- Rett Syndrome
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Integration Dysfunction
- Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Social Anxiety
- Stereotypic Movement Disorder
- Stuttering
- Tourette Syndrome (TS)
- Usher Syndrome
- Williams Syndrome