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Hi,
I am a mom who does what I like to call SONFLOOR with my 2 beautifull kids. I have been to the Sonrise startup and loved it....hoping to go back to the Option Institute for more training in October. I run one full time program for my older child (4) and one part time for my younger one (21 months). We have 12 people in our team, excluding family members. I run both programs, we have bi-weekly team meetings supervised by Floortime professionals...so we have taken the attitude and playroom set up from Sonrise, and the developmental model and coaching from Floortime. Both kids are thriving, the toddler is responding so fast that he might not need a program very soon...but I can not compare to ABA because when my oldest son was diagnosed (at 3, a year and a half ago) we fell directly into Floortime and Sonrise.
I would love to hear of any stories of families that have been sucesfull with relationship based models, and understand "how they have kept their spirits up" and how to keep the parents/family mental health, healthy!!! I guess this is where we struggle the most. My husband and grandparents all have had Floortime training and wouldn't have it any other way. However the daily stress and anxiety of having a child in the spectrum seems to be getting worse and I really want us to work at this. Any resources you all might know about would also be welcomed! someone told me last week about mindfulnes and how that can help the family's attitude towards the challenges ahead. I am willing to try anything that will help us stay healthy and happy during our relationship based sonfloor marathon :-)
thanks for listening!!
gretchen