This site has been created for Jack as he starts his journey to the Son-Rise Autism Treatment Centre of America (TM).

Jack was born a perfectly happy healthy baby in June 2003, he met all of his developmental targets before he should have done and was very advanced for his age.

This all changed when Jack was 14 months old (just around the time that he had his MMR injection). Jack changed over night, he withdrew into his own little world, he wouldn't answer to his name, the speech he did have he lost, he didn't want to communicate with anybody and would avoid eye contact at all cost, even the slightest noise would be very distressing for him. He stopped playing with toys and would very often take all of his toys out of the box and climb in himself to hide, the only toy he ever looked at was a Bear in the big blue house book that he read from cover to cover time and time again.

To watch Jack go through this was absolutely heart breaking and we were powerless to stop it. Jack was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 2 1/2 and our world fell apart.

Since then we have worked really hard with him to give him every opportunity that any other child of his age would have, which has resulted in a huge improvement in Jacks tolerance of social situations, and with lots of love and support Jack is able to show his affection now to others.

Jack has a team of professionals involved with him who have supported him since diagnosis.

He has no verbal communication, very occasionally he will say 'Yes' or 'No' and 'Mama' 'Dada' but is not able to communicate his needs and will get very frustrated about this at times. I have to do everything in my power to help Jack and give him the best possible chance in life to tackle his autism.

With that in mind I started to take a closer look at the Son-Rise program®. On this site I will show the benefits of the Son-Rise program® and also give information about support groups for other parents and carers. Check the 'Site pages' column at the left of the screen for updates.

Look out for all the latest developments in our fund raising, maybe you would like to come along to an event, help out or donate to Jack's fund. We would love to hear from you.