All About Autism
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Heard MMR is mandatory now by Singapore government since last yr only
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Ytd when I was at Leo magan . All mummies there lOok real haggard :(. Poor thing... Jiayou mummies
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hello parents, just to share.
April 2 is world autism awareness day. See the facebook links for some related activities in Singapore
https://www.facebook.com/WorldAutismAwarenessDay2012Singapore
https://www.facebook.com/projectrawgems -
Why autistic pp cannot work previously ? But some say they are genius n can even be doctor?! N yet they are consider disability??! So contradicting ?!??
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Autism is a spectrum, some may be mild, moderate or severe. Those mild ones can be trained to do repetitive work with clear steps. Of course some may be gifted in certain areas which is quite rare. All people will have have some forms
Of disability, it is just a matter whether it affect ur basic functioning in life. -
Basic function skills: communication (listening, talking, understanding), life independent skills ( self-care skills eg toileting, bathing), socialisation (how to make friends, keep friends, adhere to social norms), compliance to instructions etc
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How to find out these ?? Esp doctors , therapist are asking us parent to provide what problem n what strength our child has??! So funny ain’t they suppose to find out themselves esp they are specialist in this area. How we know how to judge from parent ?
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Helplessmum
That is why u need to work with your child. Surely the parents know their strengths and weaknesses. The dr probably only see them
Once or twice and they can’t draw such conclusions easily. We as parents see them everyday. If we don’t even know our children, how can we expect the drs to know? Unless like you said - absent parenting. -
What we judge is not what they think right ?
For instance . I say my son know how to speak in sentence then to them is parroting . I duno the term call parroting until they tell us.
So alot of such others terms may not know and we think our kids are fine -
helplessmum3:
How to find out these ?? Esp doctors , therapist are asking us parent to provide what problem n what strength our child has??! So funny ain't they suppose to find out themselves esp they are specialist in this area. How we know how to judge from parent ?
It makes me wonder too when I filled up the forms ( at least 6 sets)last time.. (are they playing cheat?) I now realised that it would be be ineffective n inefficient for them to deduce what ur child needs. It would be very costly for the parents to bear especially when the consultations and assessment r charged by hour.
Each individual is different. Only a parent will know what are the most critical issues to tackle. It might be stimming, echolalia, spinning, hypersensitivity or hyposenstivity to stimuli, language skills, weak handwriting etc. unfortunately there's no one size fits all solution. Based on the critical issues raised by the problem, the therapist will observe the child more with regards to that issue and pinpoint the source of difficulty n plan to resolve it.
Eg I heard fr my OT that some parents brought their kids because of poor handwriting skills. It was after the observation that the therapist that the child has weak core muscles and unable to use the arm separately from the body. It might also be due to the eye unable to track effectively during copying.
Hope it give u some idea abt those forms...
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