Redding, CA
Program Dates
Spring 2025
Thursdays
March 20, 27
April 3, 10, 24
May 1
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (ages 5-18)
Financial Info
$90
Scholarships
ACEing Autism strives to keep costs affordable for families and can provide an ACEing Autism scholarship to families in financial need. We also offer information on the Dick’s Sporting Goods Grant for those that qualify.
Program Directors
Tony Chang
I have live in Redding for 19 years and raised my family here. I work at Shasta Orthopaedic and I coach tennis lesson regularly and teach medical residents and students in clinical sports medicine. I have 3 children, oldest, Karina is now at USC and my two younger ones, Karissa and Kaleo are high nationally ranked tennis players (Karissa top 25 in country, and Kaleo top 150 in the country), and Karina was formally nationally ranked too. I am an active member, speaker with Racquet Sports Professional Association, American Medical Tennis Association, and Society for tennis Medicine and Science. Tennis medicine is my subspecialty and I help out with USTA, WTA, ATP, ITF with their injury protocols and help out with professional ITF events and travel to consult for Taiwan’s tennis national team.
Karissa Chang
Karissa Chang is currently a Freshman in high school at ICL Academy. After volunteering at the ACEing Autism program in Elk Grove, and seeing the incredible difference she was able to make in the lives of players and parents, she decided to help start a program in her own city. Karissa is taking over the role of older sister Karina who was the program director for the last two years. Karissa is a honor student, Blue Chip (top 25 nationally) tennis player, second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and loves to sew/design clothes and crochet animals to bless at risk youth in Redding.