All About Autism
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kay_liz:
DAS mostly provides therapy for children with Dyslexia. it might be worthwhile looking at other therapy centers close to your location or to look for home based-speech therapy services that would be more convenient and would promote better generalisation of skills learnt (speechbubbles.com.sg offers home-based speech therapy services).
Hi... my 4yo is also referred to EIPIC and I was told she will get the slot in next year March. While waiting for the slot, she goes for her speech therapy at CDU.lowyanhuay:
Hi,
After doing all the assessment forms from the EIPIC, it seems like there will be no slots for my son for another 6 to 12 months. I am considering going private training for my son until he gets a slot. Can someone recommend some private therapy center for a reasonable price? The list provided to me by CDU is above or around 1500 a month for 2 consultations a week.
What is your son diagnosed with? Mine has global developmental delay but the problem is more on her speech. I have called up DAS and they do have 1 to 1 speech and language therapy. Costs are on per term basis but i think less than 1500 for 10 lessons? Maybe u can check out their website: https://das.org.sg/
For GDD cases, their overall development is slow. This would impact their development of their overall posture and tone. As speech requires the use of many fine muscles, like the tongue, palate, jaw and lips, it is considered to by a type of fine motor skill (like writing). Typical muscular development requires a child to adequately develop their core and trunk muscles before their speech muscles are properly developed. As such, try to focus more on their core and trunk muscles first.
However, seeing a speech therapist is also essential to help develop the necessary skills for your child to communicate. this includes your child's receptive language and to promote verbal behaviour to let your child know that she can use words to express herself. Please do not focus on the accuracy of her articulation yet. This would be counter productive and would discourage her to talk (i.e. \"everything i say is wrong... I might as well don't speak\"). -
Snow24:
Hi
I have a 2.5 years he don't seemed to understand verbal instructions well. I showed him the abstract symbol card he don't understand.
Then I shown him real object eg his shoes to tell him wear shoes.
How can I better communicate with him so that he understand or how should I communicate with him.Snow24:
Hi, saw your question on how to communicate better with your child and how to keep your child safe/ ask for help from the forum 'all about autism'.Hi
May I check if anyone can share how do you teach children what to do if they get lost from parent or how to prevent so that they stay in the group especial for asd child.
Just wanted to share my 2 cents from my experience with working with children with autism. Your questions are difficult to answer given that I do not at what level your child is functioning at. but here are some tips.
1) Qn on communication. Children with ASD are very self directed and tend to hyperfocus on objects but have difficulties attending to people. However, this does not mean that they do not want to communicate. They just have more innate difficulties that make communication difficult for them. First thing I would advise you to do would be to understand your child's sensory profile. Children with special needs have a lot of regulation needs. Your child may be hyper or hypo sensitive to tactile (touch), sound, proprioceptive (movement), visual stimuli. after knowing this, try to create an environment that is not over stimulating for your child. This could mean to make the room quieter/ play songs or noise in the background, let your child wear slippers/ make sure the floor is clean, choose an activity like sand play (kinetic sand) or water, etc. This would allow your child to regulate better and pay more attention to you. Second thing i would advice is to create opportunity for needs. look for things your child wants. Try to get him to request for items through very simple methods; even if it is just giving you eye contact or through the PECs system (when done correctly). The third thing I would do is to develop a play relationship with your child. There are several approaches for this. The Hanen approach is a common one that kkh also provides talk on. DIR floor time is another approach, in this approach, there are many steps for a successful implementation. But considering your child is only 2 coming to 3, it would be at the stage where the communication partner has to copy everything your child does to help him to notice you, connect with you. There is also a Relationship Development Intervention approach where you have 0 demands placed on your child but to get him to come to you because u have something fun with you. There are many more ways to increase meaningful communication exchanges with your child. if you are keen, do let me know and we can chat over the phone:)
2) Qn on safety. again, it is hard to say because, again, I do not know at which level your child is functioning at. However, this topic is a very common topic that most parents with children with ASD go through. Children with ASD are very self-directed and have difficulties with compliance and are poor at auditory processing. As such, the best way to go about this is for your child to deal with these difficulties through therapy (ABA or speech therapy). Therapy would help to increase your child's ability to listen, to follow the adult's lead, improve on their processing abilities, their language ability and overall behavioir.
It would also help for you to continually increase your child's awareness of dangers around him. This includes traffic rules, guidelines and routines. Structure and routines are the best way for them to understand what is going on around them.
I myself am a speech and language therapist:) so if you have any questions, or are interested to engage my services, let me know!:)
You can view my website and reviews on speechbubbles.com.sg or contact me at 97482908:)
Hope this helps!
Jia you!!:) -
Woon_D:
:goodpost:
Hi, saw your question on how to communicate better with your child and how to keep your child safe/ ask for help from the forum 'all about autism'.
Just wanted to share my 2 cents from my experience with working with children with autism. Your questions are difficult to answer given that I do not at what level your child is functioning at. but here are some tips.
1) Qn on communication. Children with ASD are very self directed and tend to hyperfocus on objects but have difficulties attending to people. However, this does not mean that they do not want to communicate. They just have more innate difficulties that make communication difficult for them. First thing I would advise you to do would be to understand your child's sensory profile. Children with special needs have a lot of regulation needs. Your child may be hyper or hypo sensitive to tactile (touch), sound, proprioceptive (movement), visual stimuli. after knowing this, try to create an environment that is not over stimulating for your child. This could mean to make the room quieter/ play songs or noise in the background, let your child wear slippers/ make sure the floor is clean, choose an activity like sand play (kinetic sand) or water, etc. This would allow your child to regulate better and pay more attention to you. Second thing i would advice is to create opportunity for needs. look for things your child wants. Try to get him to request for items through very simple methods; even if it is just giving you eye contact or through the PECs system (when done correctly). The third thing I would do is to develop a play relationship with your child. There are several approaches for this. The Hanen approach is a common one that kkh also provides talk on. DIR floor time is another approach, in this approach, there are many steps for a successful implementation. But considering your child is only 2 coming to 3, it would be at the stage where the communication partner has to copy everything your child does to help him to notice you, connect with you. There is also a Relationship Development Intervention approach where you have 0 demands placed on your child but to get him to come to you because u have something fun with you. There are many more ways to increase meaningful communication exchanges with your child. if you are keen, do let me know and we can chat over the phone:)
2) Qn on safety. again, it is hard to say because, again, I do not know at which level your child is functioning at. However, this topic is a very common topic that most parents with children with ASD go through. Children with ASD are very self-directed and have difficulties with compliance and are poor at auditory processing. As such, the best way to go about this is for your child to deal with these difficulties through therapy (ABA or speech therapy). Therapy would help to increase your child's ability to listen, to follow the adult's lead, improve on their processing abilities, their language ability and overall behavioir.
It would also help for you to continually increase your child's awareness of dangers around him. This includes traffic rules, guidelines and routines. Structure and routines are the best way for them to understand what is going on around them.
I myself am a speech and language therapist:) so if you have any questions, or are interested to engage my services, let me know!:)
You can view my website and reviews on speechbubbles.com.sg or contact me at 97482908:)
Hope this helps!
Jia you!!:) -
Dear all,
My boy is 3.7 years old and diagnoised as Aspergers from private school. I would like to listen/hear the suggestions from all that Childcare centres that accomodate special needs kids in East side of singapore. We are staying in Pasir ris and currently my boy is attending EARLY INTERVENTION SECTION (3X) a week and one hour per day in Bridge learing school at CCK sports complex. In additon, we sent him to private speech thraphist once a week too.
At BL school, all teachers and service are good but transportation is main issue/problem for us
. So we are planning to tranfer my boy to suitable school to east side.
Thanks in advance and looking forward to hearing soon. -
Woon_D:
DAS mostly provides therapy for children with Dyslexia. it might be worthwhile looking at other therapy centers close to your location or to look for home based-speech therapy services that would be more convenient and would promote better generalisation of skills learnt (speechbubbles.com.sg offers home-based speech therapy services).
Hi... my 4yo is also referred to EIPIC and I was told she will get the slot in next year March. While waiting for the slot, she goes for her speech therapy at CDU.kay_liz:
[quote=\"lowyanhuay\"]Hi,
After doing all the assessment forms from the EIPIC, it seems like there will be no slots for my son for another 6 to 12 months. I am considering going private training for my son until he gets a slot. Can someone recommend some private therapy center for a reasonable price? The list provided to me by CDU is above or around 1500 a month for 2 consultations a week.
What is your son diagnosed with? Mine has global developmental delay but the problem is more on her speech. I have called up DAS and they do have 1 to 1 speech and language therapy. Costs are on per term basis but i think less than 1500 for 10 lessons? Maybe u can check out their website: https://das.org.sg/
For GDD cases, their overall development is slow. This would impact their development of their overall posture and tone. As speech requires the use of many fine muscles, like the tongue, palate, jaw and lips, it is considered to by a type of fine motor skill (like writing). Typical muscular development requires a child to adequately develop their core and trunk muscles before their speech muscles are properly developed. As such, try to focus more on their core and trunk muscles first.
However, seeing a speech therapist is also essential to help develop the necessary skills for your child to communicate. this includes your child's receptive language and to promote verbal behaviour to let your child know that she can use words to express herself. Please do not focus on the accuracy of her articulation yet. This would be counter productive and would discourage her to talk (i.e. \"everything i say is wrong... I might as well don't speak\").[/quote]Hi.. yes it is a centre for Dyslexia but on top of that they have speech and language therapy. I don't know, but I wanted to do anything that can at least help her at the moment while waiting and waiting... What other centres can I bring her to other than those government and private centres listed in SGEnables? I have very limited options at the moment. I am a FTWM and my child is in a full time mainstream CC and because of her condition, she needs to go to an EIPIC for 2-hourly sessions daily.
I have a lot of dilemma in my decision right now because:
1) The EIPIC centre i chose is near to her CC and they provide transport to & fro her school. However, whichever slot i chose, it will impact her learning routine in the childcare.
2) The monthly costs of government EIPIC is very high for us due to the household income which they calculates based on annual income (bonus, AWS, etc which increases annual income). I am not able to get much subsidy, therefore being in a government EIPIC is even more exp than a private centre (which calculates subsidy by monthly income).
3) The private centre I am looking at is at Newton while we are at Jurong. But they only offer weekday sessions and there is no transport, nobody to send her to and fro.
Thus, i was deciding to at least bring her to this DAS centre (i spoke to them about my child's condition where they are offering 1-to-1 speech and language therapy with doc's referral) which is near my home and it will be easier for my caregiver to help. My caregiver is not able to help with transport to & fro Newton as I have 2 other kids to manage.
Why I am doing speech therapy now is because she is also having the therapy at CDU while waiting for enrolment to EIPIC. But the frequency is too short, like once a month! I know it is not addressing the overall condition of my child, but I was hoping to do something while waiting.... I have submitted my application to the government EIPIC centre but waiting to see the final monthly costs. If too high, i am not able to enrol her, then I have no other options, do I? -
PhonePyai:
Not sure if you know this one:Dear all,
My boy is 3.7 years old and diagnoised as Aspergers from private school. I would like to listen/hear the suggestions from all that Childcare centres that accomodate special needs kids in East side of singapore. We are staying in Pasir ris and currently my boy is attending EARLY INTERVENTION SECTION (3X) a week and one hour per day in Bridge learing school at CCK sports complex. In additon, we sent him to private speech thraphist once a week too.
At BL school, all teachers and service are good but transportation is main issue/problem for us . So we are planning to tranfer my boy to suitable school to east side.
Thanks in advance and looking forward to hearing soon.
http://www.pcs.org.sg/iccp.html[quote]The ICCP is an inclusive programme provided in existing Child Care Centres which allows children, age 2-6 years, with special needs to learn alongside their regular peers. The ICCP aims to provide a natural environment for the child to learn, play, socialize and grow up in. It helps to prepare the child for entry into primary school later.
The programme is available in selected childcare centres. These centres have teachers who are specially trained to address the learning and social needs of the child. The physical classroom environment is also designed to cater to children with special needs and specially designed teaching materials may be used.
Our 6 ICCP centres supported and funded by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports (MCYS), are:
Ang Mo Kio Childcare Centre
Hougang Childcare Centre
Jurong Childcare Centre
Tampines Childcare Centre
Woodlands Childcare Centre
Yishun Childcare Centre [/quote] -
Hi
If child has motor planning issues.Any one can share tips to help child. -
Hi
If child has motor planning issues.Any one can share tips to help child. -
Snow24:
It varies from task to task. What exactly is he struggling with now?Hi
If child has motor planning issues.Any one can share tips to help child.
Basically, what I do is observe to see what the issue is, then break down the task into very small steps, including details like how to place fingers, hands etc, how to pull/push/twist etc. Make him practice the steps in the same order again and again until it becomes a habit. My older girl has these issues, and we still have to teach her whenever she encounters a new task. And not just motor planning either, the most recent \"planning\" lesson we did with her was essay-writing. -
Hi
Younger child does not want to attemp gym if he deemed difficult. Cannot do jump with both feet nor squat.
Even tolieting has issue teaching him due to sequencing problem.
Older one cannot do essay writing.
I wonder how to help them.
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