Highly trained, caring Davis Autism Facilitators work individually with each client, so the programme is delivered at their pace and according to their needs. A support person also receives in-depth training from the Facilitator so they can support the individual in using the new tools in daily life. If an individual is not able to work directly with a Facilitator, the Facilitator can coach the support person to work with their loved one at home.

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Who would benefit from a Davis Autism Approach® Programme?

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Any autistic individual aged eight years or over, who has receptive language (i.e. they can understand what is being said) can benefit from this life-changing programme.

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If an individual does not yet have receptive language, we can still help.  However, their Davis Autism journey will take a different path, starting with the Davis Stepping Stones Programme beginning steps to the Davis Autism Approach.

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What is involved in a Davis Autism Approach® Programme?

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Davis Autism Approach® is a three-step programme.

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Step 1: Self-Regulation

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Our Facilitator will begin by assisting the individual to become more present in the world, develop accurate perception, gain an awareness of self, and develop the ability to regulate their focus, stress and energy levels.  This process includes: 

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Auditory Orientation – the participant listens to a specifically engineered sound through headphones leading up to and, if necessary, during programme sessions. This auditory stimulus – affectionately referred to as the ‘Davis ting’ was designed by Ron Davis to help each participant to develop accurate, stable perceptions and an awareness of being separate from others. This technique can greatly enhance a person’s ability to maintain a calm state of focus.

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Release – a breathing tool for relaxation, relieving tension and to help manage stress and anxiety levels.

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Dial – a visualisation technique that enables the individual to monitor and regulate their energy levels according to any situation.

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Auditory orientation fine-tuning – this consolidates the feeling of focus established by the Auditory Orientation, and enables the participant to achieve and maintain focus without needing to use the auditory orientation sound.

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Self-awareness – using plastilina clay, the individual creates a model that represents themselves (Self).  This model of Self is used in every part of the programme that follows, to allow true understanding of how Self can be involved in all of the fundamental life concepts.

 

​Step 2: New foundations

 

Once the individual has developed a greater awareness of Self, established more accurate perception and is becoming more present in the world, we can help them to learn fundamental life concepts that they may not have picked up previously.

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The focus of the New Foundations life concepts is to facilitate solid understanding of the following fundamental ideas:

• Self, change, consequence, before and after, cause and effect, time, sequence, order and disorder

• continue, survive, perception, thought, experience

• energy, force, emotion, want, need, intention

• motivation, ability, control and responsibility.

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Each concept is taught and ‘mastered’ using a highly effective, multi-sensory hands-on approach, which heightens each participant’s engagement and ability to learn. 

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First, the individual is guided to create their own clay model of the concept in order to assimilate the idea accurately.  The individual is then encouraged to find and examine the concept in the real world. These exploratory experiences are essential for enabling the individual to consolidate and integrate the concept for themselves. 

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New Foundations also includes a set of  simple, powerful exercises that empowers the individual to:

• Establish order in the physical environment

• They learn how to use the concepts to establish order, determine order, and create and maintain order.

• Creating new behaviors

• They explore behaviors that have had negative consequences and, using the concepts above, create new, positive outcomes and strategies.

• Develop self-responsibility

• They learn how to increase their personal sense of responsibility by applying the New Foundation life concepts in real-world situations.

 

Step 3: Building bridges

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Once fundamental life concepts have been consolidated for an individual, they have the foundations on which to start building a bridge into the world of other people.

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The Building Bridges stage of the programme focuses on facilitating social awareness by exploring the different types of relationships and behaviors we engage in with others. 

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Rather than having the individual learn a set of social skills, we work with them to explore different categories of relationships and associated behaviors that can be applied across any social situation they may encounter.

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Once again, the visual, hands-on technique of modelling clay is used by the individual to create models of Self and others within these different types of relationships.

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What kind of results do people see with the Davis Autism Approach® Programme?

 

Clients who have completed the programme have experienced many positive changes. These are some of the most common results Davis Autism Facilitators see in their clients, which have been confirmed through independent research:

• less anxiety

• increased ability to be able to take part in daily activities and create order in their life

• a willingness to try new things

• greater capacity to cope with change

• greater ability to cause a change in their life

• a reduction in sensory overload symptoms

• reductions in meltdowns

• a greater sense of self, and being better equipped in relationships.

 

What are the options for accessing this programme?

 

Every individual has unique needs. We have developed a variety of delivery options to choose from, so you can find the best solution to suit your needs.

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Contact us now!

 

Don’t wait for the learning difficulties to develop!!

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Contact us now and request a complimentary 30-minute discovery call.