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Cast: Kathryn Harrold, Kerry Sherman, Stephen Elliott, Max Showalter, Melissa Francis, James Farentino

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Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love is a 1979 NBC television docudrama film adapted by the biographical book Son-Rise (currently Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues) by Barry Neil Kaufman, and is the real life story of how, according to his parents, Raun Kaufman completely recovered from severe autism. The film was directed by Glenn Jordan and the teleplay was written by Stephen Kandel, Samahria Lyte Kaufman, and Barry Neil Kaufman. The film tells of Bears and Suzie Kaufman and their newly born offspring, Raun. By the time he was eighteen months old, Raun was diagnosed with a perpetual disability... MORE

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love is a 1979 NBC television docudrama film adapted by the biographical book Son-Rise (currently Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues) by Barry Neil Kaufman, and is the real life story of how, according to his parents, Raun Kaufman completely recovered from severe autism. The film was directed by Glenn Jordan and the teleplay was written by Stephen Kandel, Samahria Lyte Kaufman, and Barry Neil Kaufman. The film tells of Bears and Suzie Kaufman and their newly born offspring, Raun. By the time he was eighteen months old, Raun was diagnosed with a perpetual disability known as classic autism — which, at the time, was classified as a form of childhood schizophrenia — and had mental retardation. Accordingly, "although advised to institutionalize Raun, his parents...instead created an innovative home-based, child-centered program in an effort to reach [him]." Subsequently, Raun became typical of neural development and earned his master's degree from Brown University. The therapeutic, distraction-free play therapy progressed into a teaching model called The Son-Rise Program. By 1983, it was founded as The Option Institute and the Autism Treatment Center of America in LESS