All About Autism

[nugget]

Hi specialboymum,


Thanks for sharing. Glad that your boy is well taken care of.
Ok I will start to look around too.

Yes I would definitely get very involved in the school and with teachers involved.

Regarding special diet, I tried the GFCF before and it doesn’t really work for my kid. And he loves pastries and sweets, so I use them to motivate and bribe him instead and it works well. lolz.

But I do keep all the processed food away from him and my other kids. I do believe processed food are not so good.

[chibi]

My daughter is also in p1 this year.i was actually expecting this year to be a very tough year but luckily so far it has been alright. Even better than she was in Kindergarten. Same as a lot of other parents,I also informed the school before the school starts. I gave the go ahead for KK to release the information to the school so that my daughter can get all the support she needs in school. She was actually quite ok, the teacher did laugh and feedback to my mum when she picked my gal up during dismissal that she is quite cheeky at times , will reply the teacher with some funny answers . Previously my daughter wasn’t very keen to go on field trips during her kindergarten times, so I actually only let her go once to the zoo. But she actually willing ( actually she got no choice also, haha cause it is mandatory to go) went on her school fieldtrip yesterday to the pasir ris farm. She brought home some fishes from the farm and call them her little pet fish. I have to go and buy air pump and fish food yesterday * tsk tsk …hehe but I was quite happy that she enjoyed the field trip. It is really a big difference from last time. She had two buddies that I believed help her a lot in class too. My daughter actually had to go to her school dentist for dental checkup last Friday. Her form teacher and the allied educator weren’t informed prior to it, she was actually attending her Chinese lesson with her mother tongue teacher when she was called in to the dentist. Her form teacher told my mum that she was crying at the dentist, but luckily the dentist and her buddy who went for the checkup too calmed her down and hold her hand when they were checking her teeth. I had a talk with her when I got home on Friday after work about her dental check up and she told me it hurts abit , but she will try to be braver for the next check up. I think every day , we might encounter abit of ups and downs in their school lives, but it will only get better as they grow up. I think encouraging them and giving them a lot of support will help them a lot. My daughter thrives on praises from us, when I tell her , u did a good job when u went on the field trip, she will giggle and I can tell that she wanted to show to us that she is braver in primary school than last time.

[mashy]

Chibi


my boy also got the same 'cheeky' feedback from his teacher. He has also become more outspoken than before in kindy.

[chibi]

hehe mashy i take it as a compliment from the teacher . :evil:

my gal too, has become more outspoken.
i actually think pri school seems to be doing them good :rahrah:

[schweppes]

chibi:

hehe mashy i take it as a compliment from the teacher . :evil:

my gal too, has become more outspoken.
i actually think pri school seems to be doing them good :rahrah:

wait till there get into secondary school, they will do even better :rahrah: :rahrah:

[munchkukie]

really hope so…girl is in P3 now, still introvert and passive in school

[nugget]

I read that for ASD kids, some will get better as they grow older (esp if you have intro early intervention before). As these kids grow bigger, they become more aware of their differences amongst the typical kids. And they would need to put in effort to integrate. Happy for you guys that your kids are doing well

[mashy]

Hehe, I once read something posted online about autism.


A mother asked her son how was sch and he said he was punished that day for talking to his friends. She immediately called up her friends and told them the news, delighting in the fact that he talked long enough to his friends to get caught.

[ImMeeMee]

dear mashy, specialboymum and chibi


your posts on your ups and downs for your children at P1 are really inspiring. I too am worried about dd3 when its time for her to go P1 in two years time, and this is one of the major things that keeps me restless. good to see that you have crossed the bridge and are coping.

in the meantime, could you kindly share what were your experiences in K1 and K2 before going to P school. did you send your children to special ed pre-school, or to mainstream pre-school/childcare, or both.

the reason I am asking is that dd3 is at K1 age this year, and is currently in a special ed pre-school under EIPIC. for some reason, we have yet to send her to a mainstream childcare centre, and I have been wondering whether this is a gap.

I have been told that a child needs mainstream environment for social interaction with neurotypical peers. I do observe that the environment under special ed pre-school is definitely more controlled and thus may have certain constraints. dd3 plays with her sisters at home, sometimes appropriately and sometimes inappropriately. she is beginning to show interest in her younger cousins when they visit on weekends.

Should we add on mainstream childcare environment at this juncture, we would also need to consider other issues like whether we are overloading her, and logistics as well. so there are pros and cons both ways.

Appreciate if you could share with me your own experience for my learning. TIA.

[mashy]

ImMeeMee:

dear mashy, specialboymum and chibi


your posts on your ups and downs for your children at P1 are really inspiring. I too am worried about dd3 when its time for her to go P1 in two years time, and this is one of the major things that keeps me restless. good to see that you have crossed the bridge and are coping.

in the meantime, could you kindly share what were your experiences in K1 and K2 before going to P school. did you send your children to special ed pre-school, or to mainstream pre-school/childcare, or both.

the reason I am asking is that dd3 is at K1 age this year, and is currently in a special ed pre-school under EIPIC. for some reason, we have yet to send her to a mainstream childcare centre, and I have been wondering whether this is a gap.

I have been told that a child needs mainstream environment for social interaction with neurotypical peers. I do observe that the environment under special ed pre-school is definitely more controlled and thus may have certain constraints. dd3 plays with her sisters at home, sometimes appropriately and sometimes inappropriately. she is beginning to show interest in her younger cousins when they visit on weekends.

Should we add on mainstream childcare environment at this juncture, we would also need to consider other issues like whether we are overloading her, and logistics as well. so there are pros and cons both ways.

Appreciate if you could share with me your own experience for my learning. TIA.

I sent my boy to mainstream childcare. He has some nurturing classmates who will help him along. Like when a boy snatched his toy, another gal will come over, take it back to give to my boy, then send him off to play elsewhere. He was still 'blur blur' and wasn't really aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful that he had nurturing classmates to help him.

I changed sch before coz the teachers and principal from the prev kindy wasn't supportive. So u may need to change schs if u can't find the right fit. Also, our kids need extra patience from the teacher, so it's important we get support from the teacher and principal. I only got him diagnosed towards the end of k2 so in a way it's good. Some schs will reject once they know it's special needs. I'm thankful that his teachers just thought of his high inertia as laziness. They only highlighted that he couldn't write well so we did OT on that. I'm surprised they could even understand him at nursery level when I myself couldn't understand his poor articulation. Lol.

We have not gone thru eipic, so dunno how they work. I think u can try out mainstream and see how he fits in. If cannot then change or withdraw.