The world’s first online individualized development and education plan!
You tell us about your child; we listen deeply; and then we identify the top goals along with resources that will accelerate your autistic child’s learning
Built on research and over 30 years of in-the-field experience. Designed with understanding and insight into parenting neurodiverse children. We get it! And that’s why ThriveGuide is your best next step.
Designed by Autism Specialist, award-winning author and Harvard graduate, Jonathan Alderson, Ed. M.
I've spent 25 years gathering research-based autism education and therapy strategies, from hundreds of different programs, from around the world, and gained insights by listening to parents and spending thousands of hours with autistic children themselves.
Now, my mission is to pass on the best of these strategies, insights, and experiences.
My name is Jonathan Alderson, a Harvard graduate, author of the award-winning book Challenging the Myths of Autism, and founder of the world’s first customized online autism resource called ThriveGuide.
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I can’t wait to help you and your family live your best life possible.
Why
It’s Customized
Recommendations as unique as your child
Your autistic child is unique, like no other person on the planet, but many parents feel that their child’s therapy and education is not customized enough.
The ThriveGuide’s proprietary algorithm generates a highly customized development plan delivering not only the most important next steps but also prioritizes them so you know exactly where to begin.
It Empowers Parents
Feel clarity with specific directions within hours
While autism therapists, teachers, and specialists have a lot of advice to offer, parents often feel powerless and not well-listened to.
As the person who is most committed to your child and knows them better than anyone else, your views and ideas about your child matter. The ThriveGuide “listens” to parents to include your observations and insights in goal setting.
Skip the Waiting List
Practical strategies you can do from home
Thousands of autistic children are stuck on waiting lists for services. Months and even years of precious development time slip by. There’s no wait list for ThriveGuide.
Get started in the next 5 minutes for instant access to development goals specific to your child, with explanations and examples of the strategies and activities to achieve them.
Maximize Your Time and Budget
Know the right goal at the right time
With 30 years of clinical front-line experience, we’ve learned that not only is it important to choose the programs and strategies that match your child’s unique strengths and challenges, but also to do them in the right order. While ABA therapy is the most evidence-based, your child may benefit most from a priming program beforehand or other complementary additions.
ThriveGuide doesn’t replace daily therapy or school, it maximizes and accelerates their benefits for the cost to get started of less than a single Speech Therapy session.
What Parents and Professionals
are saying about the ThriveGuide
Every page is full of insights, inspiration, and educational resources. The developmental recommendations are a perfect blend of research-based strategies and explain the “why”, all presented with empathy and understanding the reality for parents like me.
Kristin
Parent, Ontario, Canada.
How It Works
1. Online Questionnaire Covering Multiple Areas of Development
Science-Based Scoring and Analysis
After creating a free account, parents first complete an
in-depth intake questionnaire about various aspects of your child or loved one’s strengths and challenges, including language skills, social skills, independence skills, and repetitious and ritualized behaviors.
The insightful questions take into account the child’s physical health, motivations, environment, and primary relationships.
2. Generate A Personalized ThriveGuide
Instant recommendations to move forward today
Friendly videos guide you through the intake to the moment you generate an individualized ThriveGuide.
The development recommendations you’ll see are prioritized in a very specific order. Taking the right step at the right time saves you from wasting time and financial resources and maximizes your child’s development.
The ThriveGuide begins with a powerful set of foundational concepts called The Essentials: how-to videos, with supporting scientific research, and activity ideas developed by Jonathan Alderson, autism specialist, award-winning author, and founder of the ThriveGuide. The Essentials are some of Jonathan’s best insights from 30 years of coaching parents and teachers for how to accelerate any child’s learning.
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3. Recommendations, Practical Activities, and Learning Resources
Individualized to your unique child
Each ThriveGuide Recommendation is carefully written to guide you in a specific area of your child’s development.
You’ll have access to a diverse range of activities designed to engage your child, including games, apps, and email templates to facilitate conversations with specialists.
In the Learn More section we provide peer-reviewed published scientific research articles that support every development recommendation. Plus, we’ve included short videos and web articles for you to learn more in-depth insights into your ThriveGuide recommendations.
Each of your individualized recommendations comes with clear “completion criteria” so you have defined goals to reach. When you complete a recommendation, you can activate your next ThriveGuide recommendation confidently knowing it’s your best next step.
4. Team Share With Your Circle Of Care
Invite specialists, family, and collaborators to accelerate growth.
Parents are able to share their child's ThriveGuide
recommendations and activities with professionals and
family members to create consistency and maximize forward momentum.
Simply click on the Share button from any recommendation or resource screen to send an invite and to start
collaborating.
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