Waves Of Healing: How Surfing Changes the Lives of Children with Autism

Surfing for a Cure is a powerful account of families of children with autism using surfing as a form of therapy and healing.

What happens when children and teenagers with autism–a condition known as the fastest growing developmental disorder in the United States–are introduced to surfing in the ocean? There’s wipeouts, outbursts and most of all, there’s powerful breakthroughs. Surfing for a Cure follows a group of everyday families who attend organized surf events in search of these powerful breakthroughs for their children with autism, using surfing as a unique form of therapy. Not only is this a story about children with autism struggling to stand on surfboards, struggling to speak, struggling to make progress in a world run on the foundation of an understood normal (and what scientific research has to say about such); Surfing for a Cure is also an inspirational and uplifting how-to story of how families have chosen to cope with autism by riding waves of healing.