Autism 2 Tower

Autism 2 Tower LLC is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization providing early autism awareness and life-changing empowerment skills teaching self-confidence and self-sustainability while providing the ultimate sensory-friendly environment retreat for our loved ones impacted by sensory disabilities such as autism or any other sensory processing disorder.

This prize will contribute to our programs i.e.

1. Autism 2 Tower Ultimate Sensory Friendly Retreat.  

This will be a state of the art retreat using 100% green natural energies i.e. geothermal heating, solar, wind, free wifi, filtered well-water, and as well as 3D-technologies to create the ultimate sensory environment for our special love ones with disabilities. The Autism 2 Tower Sensory Retreat will be a life-improving adventure with a friendly staff of Occupational, Speech, Physical and Listening Therapists, and Autism Coaches and counselors to help with every aspect of our adventure while providing life-improving skills for our loved ones and family members with sensory disabilities.

2. Providing 1000 tablets in 100 days mission with the Autism2Tower having special Nonverbal Communication app preloaded. 

3.  Introducing "Autism-Man" as a superhero. We are releasing regularly its miniseries on our website and youtube channel to uplift the autism community while inspiring social acceptance. 

Autism 2 Tower was founded September of 2020  from The Ohio State University by me.  I was a three-year starter on the offensive line for The Ohio State Buckeyes and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1990.  I have two beautiful children Chantelle and Cayson.  Cayson was born at 21 weeks and spent 128 days. Cayson has a sensory processing disorder and received his autism (ASD) diagnosis when he was four years old. Cayson became my real inspiration to start this wonderful initiative called Autism 2 Tower. I asked myself these two questions “If not me, then who will start to help the Autism Community?” “If not now, then when”.

Therefore, I founded Autism 2 Tower LLC in 2020 to give and make an impact on the autism community and to give autism a true voice.  Autism 2 Tower LLC has a goal to bring real and tangible change to develop the ultimate sensory friendly environmental retreat called Autism 2 Tower Sensory Retreat, providing a favorable education environment for the Autism Community and through the help of technology and innovation, improve their quality of life, so that they can also equally enjoy with us this beautiful world.

Problem: Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people communicate and interact with the world. Sensory Processing Disorders is a condition where children has a difficult time receiving and responding to information from their senses. Children who have sensory issues may have an aversion to anything that triggers their senses, such as light, sound, touch, taste, or smell.

Scale: According to CDC, one in every 54 children is on the autism spectrum. It is estimated that one in every 270 people has Autism. Autism Spectrum disorder was once considered a rare condition, but now it is the most encumbering and common childhood disorder. Individuals with Autism appear similar to other people who are not suffering from Autism, which has caused them to have different treatment in the world. Complete research with statistics of CDC is given in the link as https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aut...

Our Proposed Solution: 

Our Proposed solution is the development of five “core competencies”. Those includes... 

• Advocacy at State and National Level
• Inclusive Education
• Information & Referral 
• Support & Partnership Development
• Working with and through Community

Our Core Programs: These solutions are practically applied in our core programs which are already explained earlier in the answers above

We believe our program unique, different, and innovative. For instance...

The Autism2Tower Sensory Retreat will be the first of its kind, a state-of-the-art retreat and a role model using 100% green natural energies such as geothermal heating, solar, wind, wifi free zones, filtered well water, and as well as 3D technologies to create the ultimate sensory environment for our special love ones with disabilities. The Autism 2 Tower Sensory Retreat will be a life-improving adventure with a friendly staff of Occupational, Speech, Physical and Listening Therapists and Autism Coaches and counselors to help with every aspect of our adventure while providing life-improving skills for our loved ones and family members with sensory disabilities. We will ensure full and effective participation and inclusion in society evolving capacities of children with disabilities, and full privacy. We will promote freedom to make one’s own choices and thrive to be amongst the most dynamic facilities by doing more than our community expects.

  We will provide free learning tablets to 600 families with autism, to be preloaded with the Autism 2 Tower non-verbal communication app that will allow non-verbal users to communicate their everyday wants and needs, as well as emotional, feels through this app

Our Theory of Change Process

Impact: The lives of all affected by autism and sensory processing disorders are improved.

Outcome/Purpose: 

Through the help of the Autism2Tower initiative, the targetted individuals and families living with autism are able to maximize their quality of life, treated with the highest level of dignity, and live in a society in which their talents and skills are appreciated and valued.

Objectives/Results:

• Ensuring that people will Autism have full and effective participation and inclusion in society and non-discrimination.
• Promoting individual autonomy including the freedom to make one’s own choices.
• Securing the necessary funds and resources required for the smooth running of our program on a sustainable basis
• Providing the most dynamic facilities by doing more than our community expects.
• Ensuring equality of opportunity and respect for the evolving capacities of children with disabilities and respect for the right of children with disabilities to preserve their identities.

Thematic Outputs

• Strong Advocacy generated at State and National Level
• Inclusive Education is provided to people with Autism
• Awareness provided about Autism to the Community
• Support/Partnership Developed for our Program
• Worked is done with and through Community through "helping people help themselves Approach"

For our programs, please refer above..