1. Create a warm, playful rapport and connection between you and your child, and with other family members, friends, and teachers
2. Build your child’s communication, language, social interaction, and enjoyment of people
3. Increase your child’s motivation and cooperation
4. Utilize effective autism teaching techniques to enable your child to achieve specific educational goals
5. Be the most effective facilitator and/or program director that you can be by creating and sustaining an attitude of hope and optimism, believing that autism recovery is a possibility, staying focused and inspired, and taking care of yourself
6. Adopt a nonjudgmental and optimistic attitude towards your child
7. Become an effective resource for your child
8. Overcome everyday challenges