Re: did your child not get better by help from sonrise?

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In Reply to: did your child not get better by help from sonrise? posted bykathrine on May 28, 2000 at 14:26:07:

Katherine, I have written to your email address as well. My son spent two months at the Option Institute in 1985 and, on the surface would appear not to have made a great deal of progress.
However - his progress also depends on the atmosphere created for him and the people who are working with him and their acceptance and training. I have been unable to find any volunteers to assist in an Option programme with Ben in all these years. I have many questions that really need dialoging but as a single mother I am unable to take advantage of all that is being offered - there being no-one I really trust to care for Ben in my absence. He has had further complications with the discovery he has suffered from Chronic Sleep Apnea since birth and
that has been asevere limitation. I know, without a doubt, that Option is the most wonderful gift any can have and that any child can make progress.
However, the attitude os those around them, one's own attitude are of utmost importance if the child is to trust to be with us. My son is notably different from his peers and he
is obviously well aware of the world and the way it works. He is happy and his own person - he is shy but not shut in. Option is a gift - don't doubt it's promise - and bear in mind that these children,as with ourselves, have the choice to join us or not. Lack of progress cannot really be seen as 'failure'. Anyway, I'll make further contact. Regards, Lesley

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Having worked with the treatment of autistic children i denmark for some years, i would very much like to hear all there is about the sonrise program. however, almost all the reports on the options pages are of succes, and i wonder if anyone reading these pages have a different story to tell+
: Please write me,
: best regards, Kathrine.

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Comments:: Katherine, I have written to your email address as well. My son spent two months at the Option Institute in 1985 and, on the surface would appear not to have made a great deal of progress. : However - his progress also depends on the atmosphere created for him and the people who are working with him and their acceptance and training. I have been unable to find any volunteers to assist in an Option programme with Ben in all these years. I have many questions that really need dialoging but as a single mother I am unable to take advantage of all that is being offered - there being no-one I really trust to care for Ben in my absence. He has had further complications with the discovery he has suffered from Chronic Sleep Apnea since birth and : that has been asevere limitation. I know, without a doubt, that Option is the most wonderful gift any can have and that any child can make progress. : However, the attitude os those around them, one's own attitude are of utmost importance if the child is to trust to be with us. My son is notably different from his peers and he : is obviously well aware of the world and the way it works. He is happy and his own person - he is shy but not shut in. Option is a gift - don't doubt it's promise - and bear in mind that these children,as with ourselves, have the choice to join us or not. Lack of progress cannot really be seen as 'failure'. Anyway, I'll make further contact. Regards, Lesley : : : Having worked with the treatment of autistic children i denmark for some years, i would very much like to hear all there is about the sonrise program. however, almost all the reports on the options pages are of succes, and i wonder if anyone reading these pages have a different story to tell+ : : Please write me, : : best regards, Kathrine.