All About Autism

[starlight1968sg]

Sorry as am not following this thread closely.

I am puzzled by the effectiveness on "writing a compo daily" on the students.

[sharonkhoo]

starlight1968sg:

Sorry as am not following this thread closely.

I am puzzled by the effectiveness on \"writing a compo daily\" on the students.

For kids who can cope, it's a way of giving them lots of practice, like giving them 10 Maths questions a day, writing 10 Chinese words a day etc. P1/2 compos are quite short (80 words?), and some kids can churn them out very quickly. Some teachers (and parents) like the idea of a lot of repetition (look what P5/6 kids are asked to do!). However, I'm not sure of the effectiveness of this method even for NT kids - those who can do it easily probably don't need the practice, and those who struggle need to be taken through it more slowly.

[starlight1968sg]

Thanks slmkhoo for sharing.

Would the daily compo produced be marked or at least reviewed by the teacher?

[sharonkhoo]

starlight1968sg:

Thanks slmkhoo for sharing.

Would the daily compo produced be marked or at least reviewed by the teacher?

No idea. Maybe GfH can answer this. Must be a heavy load for the teacher, though.

[Blue Pearl]

Tks for the information. Valuable.

[tyeogh]

slmkhoo:

Blokus:

1) try to interest him to contribute to the story line but you write down for him. Simply focus on him brain storming ideas. Start at his comfort level and very simple things like 'what shall we name our character?' And then praise him like nobody's business. And then slowly increase more questions like 'what is the character doing?'. You may even need to just focus one question at a time/day/week & slowly increase it over a span of period.

2) once he's interested in coming up the story, then slowly get him to write down his ideas. Slowly start with one sentence, paragraph depending on what his comfort level is.

Yes it's going to take a long drawn process. But since you have some time before psle, best is to build the foundation rather than focus on the short term objective ie finish homework. Your ultimate goal is the PSLE.

I agree with Sim Khoo, talk to the teacher and ask for lighter workload for him. You may even try to ask the teacher to let him do the same topic for a week so you want focus with him on the above areas. I don't know just a suggestion. But wah Lao, everyday do 1 compo for p1/2 NT kid is already no joke leh. So siong!!!

Really agree with Blokus, especially the red part.

I agree with slmkhoo who agreed with Blokus. I view it more important to get the child interested than the actual compo writing, which is why I am starting my daughter on comics if thats the only thing she will ever read. This is why I also wrote 20-30 compos for and with her so that she does not see it as being difficult. Let her learn from imitation. If your son implodes, drop the compo and try another day.

Do you remember the teacher who flung your classmate's Maths exercise book out of the 3rd floor? That child will never like Maths ever again.

[tyeogh]

Gifts from Heaven:

tyeogh, I really salute you....writing 20-30 compos with your NT gal, even though it is just typing out! Think I haven't done enough...abt 5 compos only and I felt that my brain juices were all sucked dry.

Thank you, thank you ah. Its 20-30 a year, not one day! Maciam like writing 20-30 emails nia. Type, backspace, type. You can do it too. If brain juice all sucked dry, read more Archies. Lao Fu Zhi and Da Fan Shu comics also can. That one usually 6 pictures and no words. Same format as English compo. LoL.

[tyeogh]

pinkamoon:

About the topic of dating, my husband and I try to catch a movie weekly and sometimes, we do eat supper once a while when all the kids are sleeping because I am one of the lucky few who stays with my mother-in-law.


My three kids do quarrel a lot and I even have neighbour staying one floor below me knocking on my door saying that we are too loud. Once this young man made this complaint at 8pm Sat night! I told him I have tried to put mats when they play with toys and if they sometimes run around in the house, it is normal because they are children, am I right? Then once I was inflating a balloon with a pump at 5pm, guess what? The Mrs was at my door peeping at what I was doing. OMG!

I like that you make time to date your hubby. Eat what for supper? Oor luak is it? Thanks for sharing. The Oor luak too if possible. :evil:

[Cool Cool]

Dear Couragemom, Gifts from Heaven and tyeogh,


Thanks for the welcome and suggestion.

You suggested focusing more on intervention such as ABA or sped class, OT and ST rather than attending pre-school.

ABA or sped class is different from OT and ST? Can we attend section by section like ST or OT?

Attending pre-school means attending early intervention class?

Sorry if my questions sound silly. I am very new in this.

Thanks.

[Autumnleaf]

Hi mummies, I went for the first consultation and assessment for my DS1 at Cheers learning services in Bukit batok today. They started with an IQ test today and then the next session will be in a couple of weeks which will be an achievement test and she recommended an attention screenibg (Adhd). I am actually wondering if it is necessary to do an achievement test, Afterall she said it is to compare what DS1 knows in comparison to children in the states. Any views to share on this? I would prefer to use that $500 to do an autism screen and attention screening instead.