The Heart of Peace Institute

NEXT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN IS SCHEDULED FOR
SUMMER 2011 - TUCSON, AZ

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GOALS

To facilitate gentle, non–invasive healing through implementing the following techniques found highly beneficial for the person with ASD and DD.
To offer a comprehensive therapeutic program, using the latest developments in our chosen fields, to guide the young person with ASD and DD to an internal safe haven where he can reach out to the world with a sense of safety, manage their internal regulators that define them in society and develop sufficient self-confidence for healthy participation in his family, school and community.

OBJECTIVES

To provide young people with ASD and DD, and their parent, a safe, secure and well staffed program which provides a healing environment for healing.
To offer a variety of innovative therapies, with professional facilitators, which have been successful in the treatment of children with ASD and DD.
To offer respite as well as wholesome, healing personal connections and resources for the parents of young people with ASD and DD.
To provide treatment and education on holistic nutrition, neuro-developmental exercises, sensory integration exercises, spatial dynamics, art, homeopathic treatment and Cranial Sacral Therapy.
To encourage young people with ASD and DD to find freedom of expression, and warmth, love and safety in the world around them and to integrate their experience at the program into their daily lives.
To provide the parents whose children attend the program all the necessary information and support to continue the program.
When appropriate, to assist young people in learning any degree of self care and self monitoring recommended by the therapists; to assist young people in acquiring a greater sense of responsibility for themselves as their age and abilities allow.
To develop a year round support network to include the therapies and consultations with the Heart of Peace© therapists for all Institute participants.

Challenges to be Addressed

Nutrition:

Young people with ASD and DD are often dependent on high levels of carbohydrates for nutrition which, when broken down in the intestines, leads to high levels of sugar acidity, known to be the basis of many chronic problems called intestinal dysbiosis.

Medications:

Young people with ASD and DD are often suffering from the side effects of medications and chemicals. This causes inflammation of the central nervous system and contributes to developmental challenges.

Brain Development through Neuro-Motor-Sensory Movement Training:

Young people with ASD and DD often experience a numbness or dullness in their physical responses. They appear to be disconnected from their physical bodies. There is often a need for physical and emotional self-regulation and greater coordination of their primary functions.

Sensory Integration:

Young people with ASD and DD often experience a high degree of sensitivities that interfere with their attention to the external environment. Their attention priorities go to these areas of sensitivity. Until these are addressed, they are not free to attend to the priorities that family, school and society have for them.

Touch and self awareness:

Young people with ASD and DD have difficulty connecting to the messages their physical bodies give them. They do not have skill at self soothing or identifying the source of their anxiety; impulse control is challenging for them.

We believe our collaborative work with nutrition, homeopathy , Rhythmic Movement Training, Masgutovamethod Reflex Integration, Cranial Sacral Therapy , art and play address the challenges faced by children with ASD and DD and their families.

NEXT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN IS SCHEDULED FOR SUMMER 2011 - TUCSON, AZ