All About Autism
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florencetks:
Hi Mashy,
I packed for my boy in the first 3 years. In p2, I started letting him buy once a week. In p3, twice a week. And now it's the whole week. Do it slowly. Mine is also very selective on what he eats. He only eats fishball noodles and chicken rice in school. Until last year, he only buys fishball noodles during recess. This year, he started buying chicken rice because for some reason, the fishball noodles stall didn't open.mashy:
[quote=\"florencetks\"]Double E,
I also put my boy in the preparatory class in the hope of making it easier for him to cope in P1..I don't think he knows how to buy food during recess & can't put him in the student care like his older sis. He is very selective of what he eats. Never want to try new food....sigh!!
Thank you for the advice. I'm waiting for the day to come where he is willing to eat more types of food. Holidaying with my boy is very difficult!! The woes of parenting![/quote]It will get better. My son only ate carrots, corn, egg and rice till k1 or k2. He slowly started to accept other food. Last time, he wouldn't even eat chicken wings. Now when we go to ikea, he will eat up all the chicken wings. We still went on holiday every year. We didn't let his picky habits stop us. The recent holiday saw us eating McDonald every other day and when he finally got to eat his favourite pasta, he wolfed down everything in minutes. We made him try the food. Now it's actually my younger one who is more picky. She doesn't eat bread and it's driving me crazy! It's a phase, it will get better. -
I have a friend in her 20’s who has been teaching ASD kids in Rainbow for more than a year. She is resigning to give ST and OT at a private centre, and is also willing to take on private clients. She is a university graduate but doesn’t have formal qualifications in SN. If you are interested in getting a tutor with experience teaching ASD kids, you can pm your requirements to me and I’ll check with her and get her to contact you. I’m not an agent or anything, and I’ve not seen her actually teaching - she’s a personal friend.
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Hi all,
School did reading assessment for my DS in last Nov that is end of K1. Just got the report yesterday. He is one of the top scorer. I felt so proud of him. Will continue do reading with him together. -
Hi all,
School did reading assessment for my DS in last Nov that is end of K1. Just got the report yesterday. He is one of the top scorer. I felt so proud of him. Will continue do reading with him together. -
Hi all,
This was posted by one of the mummies in a yahoo group which I am a member. Found it especially applicable to all of us here.
This is what is said...
I read this in a cookbook (of all places) and thought it applied to many moms' situations-- moms who are where they are, not by choice.
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I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability-- to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to image how it would feel.
It's like this...
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip -- to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, \"Welcome to Holland.\" \"Holland?!?\" you say. \"What do you mean Holland???? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy.\"
But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place full of pestilence, famine, and disease. It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around... and you begin to notice Holland has windmills... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, \"Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned.\"
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss. [italics and bold mine]
But, if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things... about Holland.
1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley.
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Well, this is so true to me. How abt you? -
Niu2009:
Congrats, dear.Hi all,
School did reading assessment for my DS in last Nov that is end of K1. Just got the report yesterday. He is one of the top scorer. I felt so proud of him. Will continue do reading with him together.
We celebrate little happiness like this, ya?
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Ya! No matter how tired, won’t give up!
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Gifts from Heaven:
Yes it is. Exactly how I felt when I knew abt my boy's condition. All the expectations, the things that I have planned and envisaged are all gone. Now is to go with the flow and follow his pace.Hi all,
This was posted by one of the mummies in a yahoo group which I am a member. Found it especially applicable to all of us here.
This is what is said...
I read this in a cookbook (of all places) and thought it applied to many moms' situations-- moms who are where they are, not by choice.
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Quote below:
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I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability-- to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to image how it would feel.
It's like this...
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip -- to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, \"Welcome to Holland.\" \"Holland?!?\" you say. \"What do you mean Holland???? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy.\"
But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place full of pestilence, famine, and disease. It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around... and you begin to notice Holland has windmills... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, \"Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned.\"
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss. [italics and bold mine]
But, if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things... about Holland.
1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley.
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End of quote
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Well, this is so true to me. How abt you? -
Niu2009:
Hi all,
School did reading assessment for my DS in last Nov that is end of K1. Just got the report yesterday. He is one of the top scorer. I felt so proud of him. Will continue do reading with him together.
Good to hear that! -
Hi Gifts from Heaven,
What a poetic way to explain our situation! Thanks for sharing! I think now that I am 1.5 years into this journey, at least I can enjoy the scenery abit more - wah, what a large windmill! But honestly there are some days when the sadness descends on me and I got into auto mode to pass the days. And I also feel that for us, it really takes one to know one what we are going through and pat each other for the job well-done. There is undoubtedly tears and sweat behind each special child’s success.
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