All About Autism

[pinkamoon]

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[pinkamoon]

http://singaporemotherhood.com/forum/th ... eds.26271/


Hi! My son was at YWCA west coast with a Learning Support teacher. School environment wise was not fantastic but the learning support teacher was fantastic. However, she has left the yr my son graduated.

I have found a link to another forum which u may want to read, but again, u have to check again as it is an old thread. I think u can try to check with mcys, they should have a list of preschools with learning support teachers. Hope it helps.

[Eijmum]

Thanks pinkamoon!

[pinkamoon]

Hi Elijmum, I have found something useful. Try calling them.


http://www.sgenable.sg/

[DesertWind]

Double E:

After reading all your posts, I can totally feel you as me too, deep down in my heart, I am also harbouring the hopes that my son will be normal one day or at least he is so good that his traits are not so apparent to others. This is an expectation that I believe all of us are struggling to overcome. Like Tyegoh, I would have also try to upgrade him if he is doing well in the current class, to me, i won't know if he can make it or not if I don't even try. If he can't make it, I guess, then I will be more resigned to accept that he should stay back a year to catch up.

Hi Double E, Tyeogh,

Yes, totally can understand. For me, I prefer to think our boys need more time and cannot rush the growing up. From my experience, it is more painful for me to see my boy not keeping up with his peers at K2 last year compared to the thought that \"next time\" he will question why he not the same year as his peers?

See it like this, even at the university level all guys are two years behind right? Also funny for us that when we reach that level, the guys are all older than the girls. But how come nobody question why? Just take it as such.

So I am not too hung up over the 1 year of deferment. To me it really does not matter that extra year if it help my boy to blend in well with his cohorts a year later. And he much better prepared and can handle.

I think it is not wrong to try to upgrade him now because if really necessary, there is another chance to defer his P1 later on if you so decide otherwise.

[Eijmum]

Hi pinkamoon,


Thanks for being so helpful. Can I ask if you know of any good and affordable ABA therapist that you can recommend? The ones that I checked seem very expensive. I have two other kids to look after, got to plan the financial part of any therapy very carefully.

Thank you once again.

[scang]

Eijmum:

Hi pinkamoon,


Thanks for being so helpful. Can I ask if you know of any good and affordable ABA therapist that you can recommend? The ones that I checked seem very expensive. I have two other kids to look after, got to plan the financial part of any therapy very carefully.

Thank you once again.

All private therapist are in general more expensive, as most are usually in the range of $100-200 per session.

If you are accepted by SGEnable, it is subsidized by the govt, so it is more affordable depending on family household income.
It can range from $xx-5xx per month.

[pinkamoon]

Scang is right. ABA is expensive. I did not try ABA because of the cost. I think it can easily cost a few thousand dollars a month. If u want to DIY, u can try the following link.

https://www.rethinkfirst.com/aboutus/whyrethink.aspx

I almost signed up for this but ended up doing Son-Rise program
There are others who have tried ABA, maybe they can help you on this.

[Eijmum]

Thanks Scang and Pinkamoon!


Scang, my son is now at ARC through SG Enable. ARC is good but the teachers are not trained in ABA. And the class is only 4 times a week, 1.5 hour each time. Though he has improved (slightly), I thought of adding ABA therapy to curb his self injurious behavior (he still hits the head when upset and bites again recently, but it’s definitely much less compared to last time).

Pinkamoon, what is son-rise program?

Thanks!

[MummyOats]

Hi Ejimum


There is a book by Ivar Lovaas in NLB. Lovaas is considered the \"grandfather\" of ABA and his book gave very specific instructions on the ABA method for specific tasks. Hopefully it can give some DIY ideas in complementing the professional ABA therapy.

Do discuss with your doctor regarding the head-banging, it may be related to sensitivities issues instead but he cannot verbalise? Eg, maybe certain sounds (ok to us) could sounds like a shrill to him, hence triggering a reaction.

http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Developm ... 0936104783

http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/?pageId=436