FUNDING in Autism Treatment- #4 ABA vs. Son-Rise Program

http://www.autismhelp.com ABA is the treatment typically funded by school systems and offered by many schools and private therapists. Other treatments that are proven effective, such as The Son-Rise Program®, are usually excluded. As a result, parents may not be given the full range of choices they deserve in the most effective treatment for their child with Autism.

ABA was formed by Dr. Ivar Lovaas in the 1980s (Lovass, 1987) from the branch of psychology known as Behaviorism, an outdated model in modern psychology. Nonetheless, many educational techniques, including ABA, that were spawned from Behaviorism still linger. Ivar Lovass' original study (1987) into the efficacy of this model and the subsequent follow up (McEachin, Smith and Lovass, 1993) followed 19 children who underwent 2 years of this behavioral training. No single attempt at replication (despite extensively detailed operational manuals) has been able to replicate the outcome of typical functioning (Rogers, 1998). Nonetheless, ABA is still widely funded, to the exclusion of programs that might be more effective, based in part on this outdated study.

INTERESTING FACT: The actor representing The Son-Rise Program in this video, also the script writer, is fully recovered from severe Autism himself.

The Autism Treatment Center of America™ is home to The Son-Rise Program®, an effective treatment for children and adults challenged by Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), Asperger's Syndrome , and other developmental difficulties. Our team of committed teachers represents over 100 years of real life experience working with children using The Son-Rise Program. Over the last 35+ years, more than 25,000 parents and professionals from 78 countries have been trained in The Son-Rise Program techniques and methodology to help challenged children worldwide.

We believe that every child has unlimited potential. For some of The Son-Rise Program participants, this means their child returns to mainstream school or completely recovers from Autism. For other families, this means improvements in their child's development, social skills, communication, skill acquisition and quality of life far beyond what most would have ever predicted.

The Son-Rise Program® focuses on respect and deep caring as the most important factors impacting a child's motivation to learn, and from the beginning has made love and acceptance a meaningful part of every teaching process. In The Son-Rise Program, the children show us the way in to their world, and then we show them the way out to ours.

The Son-Rise Program® was created by Barry ("Bears") Neil Kaufman and Samahria Lyte Kaufman when their son, Raun, was diagnosed as severely and incurably autistic. Although advised to institutionalize him because of his "hopeless, lifelong condition," the Kaufmans instead designed an innovative home-based, child-centered program in an attempt to reach their little boy.

The Kaufmans' unique treatment, which featured joining Raun in his repetitive rocking and spinning, marked a complete departure from existing methods of Autism treatment. Raun was transformed from a mute, withdrawn child with an IQ of less than 30 into a highly verbal, socially interactive youngster with a near-genius IQ.

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[atferli]

Reichieru: I'm puzzled. IBI is a type of ABA, the systematic application of learning principles to solve socially important behavior problems. The problem isn't ABA, which has the data and results. It's Son-Rise promoting itself through misrepresentation. It has to. It doesn't have the evidence to show it's better than ABA, much less even achieve it's own goals. Thus, instead of doing science, it does very bad parody.

[SuzanneTaylor]

If you put your efforts into publishing research instead of youtube videos.. you might get funding too, Son-Rise!

[kathydarrow]

The Son rise program is an excellent program....I have done RDI with my 2 children and am now almost done my training as an RDI consultant....but if RDI did not exist, I would definitely have done Sonrise!

[Katieloudrifter]

With Autism rates skyrocketing, It's amazing to me that basically still only ABA is publically funded or supported by the insurance industry.

[anwnyc]

Son-rise program rocks! This program is one of the best that I have seen.