All About Autism
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helplessmum3:
I only know a bit from relatives and friends who have kids in american schools and australian school. My cousin's special need kids were in an Australian school for 2 years, both were happy school going kids till they come back to Singapore, they start to have problem like running away from school. My other cousin whose normal son attended american international school attended 2 weeks of immersion program in a Singapore school also feedback that he absolutely hate the school here.phtthp:
in other countries, how is their education system like, for mild autistic kids ? maybe Singapore can learn from them, if they're good.
got such things as mild one mah?
other country oso segretate them
think only got High or normal.. sucks...
The main difference is that these school as compared to Singapore, is that these school focussed more on life skills than academic.
For example, while the typical 5 years old in Singapore are learning phonics, the 5 year olds in Australia are still learning ABC, but they spend more time, going out to the garden, digging their hands into mud and looking at crawling ants or learning how to prepare sandwiches and share with friends.
Their curriculum is also less packed so teachers are able to spend more time paying attention to each student's different needs, including those with special needs.
Their teachers are also not allow to give negative feedback on the kids performance. My cousin's boy in American school told me that the teachers are not allowed to use red ink to mark \"cross\", unlike our teachers here, not only we get big red cross but negative comments like \"untidy\", \"messy\", which my son gets all the time despite getting the perfect 10/10 score for his work, luckily he is still oblivious and not bothered about it -
Desert Wind,
My son’s eye contact are Spontaneous… he will smile very widely when see me coming… -
The movie Temple Grandin will show us how autistic will see the world? Or what does it shows? Just curious.
Abit of out of topic here, if hair test shows high in mercury, means must cut off seafood totally? -
specialboymum:
I only know a bit from relatives and friends who have kids in american schools and australian school. My cousin's special need kids were in an Australian school for 2 years, both were happy school going kids till they come back to Singapore, they start to have problem like running away from school. My other cousin whose normal son attended american international school attended 2 weeks of immersion program in a Singapore school also feedback that he absolutely hate the school here.helplessmum3:
[quote=\"phtthp\"]in other countries, how is their education system like, for mild autistic kids ? maybe Singapore can learn from them, if they're good.
got such things as mild one mah?
other country oso segretate them
think only got High or normal.. sucks...
The main difference is that these school as compared to Singapore, is that these school focussed more on life skills than academic.
For example, while the typical 5 years old in Singapore are learning phonics, the 5 year olds in Australia are still learning ABC, but they spend more time, going out to the garden, digging their hands into mud and looking at crawling ants or learning how to prepare sandwiches and share with friends.
Their curriculum is also less packed so teachers are able to spend more time paying attention to each student's different needs, including those with special needs.
Their teachers are also not allow to give negative feedback on the kids performance. My cousin's boy in American school told me that the teachers are not allowed to use red ink to mark \"cross\", unlike our teachers here, not only we get big red cross but negative comments like \"untidy\", \"messy\", which my son gets all the time despite getting the perfect 10/10 score for his work, luckily he is still oblivious and not bothered about it[/quote]Singapore wil never adapt such system one...
hiaz. if mirgrate we conside yellow skin not white skin right? -
lavendery:
is about her life as ASD. She dun like hugging. as all human like to be hug so this is lacking in her... lastly she find a solution how to get hug feeling without human hugging her... is the \"Cow\" machine.. (layman for me lanaguage hee... from there on wards she could calm down herself and get over with all her spining needs , things like tat....The movie Temple Grandin will show us how autistic will see the world? Or what does it shows? Just curious.
Abit of out of topic here, if hair test shows high in mercury, means must cut off seafood totally?
and oso her life she meet 1 scientist tat believe in her.. and help her with her ability.. to think alot of thing she learn & get understanding from this scientist.. i feel tat this scientist help her to think her in unique way.. think this we have to learn as a parent.. so we understand how our child think and try to make them understand by the way they think..
from there onwards she start to excel in everyting...
u SEE social communication is very importtant in this movie, cuz she need to tell & explain her thinking... to make pple convince of her ideas...
Still social commnication & interaction is very important in life... and she fight back whenever pple oppose her... or tell them off... u see this....
i mean she beat up the person later she find is not right to beats she has stopped but by using words to scold them or tell them off... -
helplessmum3:
What a sweet boy! :love:Desert Wind,
My son's eye contact are Spontaneous.. he will smile very widely when see me coming... -
Thanks helplessmum for your wonderful review! I'll go and get the DVD
I wonder how many people out there in this world is as lucky as Temple Grandin? Have a wonderful mum and a scientist to help her. From what i know, apparently she's seems to be the only one in this world who is successful. How i wish there's more such Temple Grandin in this world -
DesertWind:
yrs too ...
What a sweet boy! :love:helplessmum3:
Desert Wind,
My son's eye contact are Spontaneous.. he will smile very widely when see me coming...
so we shld hack care of all these leballing.. We jus work on their weakness.. I think normal kids oso got weakness like learning disability.. Can focus , cant learn and not teachable dispite so many private tuitioning…. Normal kids or Special kids, all have their weakness.. jus tat they are not being label. yes Normal kid can... but can excel or study oso so -called disability but they call learning difficulties.. SUCK>>>. of cos all of us prefer to have normal kids who oso can excel in their studies la... hiaz. -
genie23:
hi, I am not a parent of an autistic child but I volunteer at church to teach catechism - and I 30 children 2 of whom are autistic. Any tips on how I may engage them without neglecting the others. I have co-volunteers so we could split the attention but don't want to make them feel they are being treated differently. They are P3 kids and wonderful boys.
Hi genie23,
Glad to see you here and you have a heart for asd kids!
If you are truly interested in this area, perhaps you can go and attend a seminar organized by the ARC (Autism Resource Centre) in Ang Mo Kio, at Pathlight school.
The run a quarterly course on \"Fundamentals of Autism\", the next run will be in June and September this year. During the 3-hour evening seminar, the trainer will share a lot of practical situations encountered to help the attendees understand this condition better and how to help these kids.
You can check this out:
http://autism.org.sg/training/calendar.php?cat=all -
lavendery:
Lavendery,Thanks helplessmum for your wonderful review! I'll go and get the DVD
I wonder how many people out there in this world is as lucky as Temple Grandin? Have a wonderful mum and a scientist to help her. From what i know, apparently she's seems to be the only one in this world who is successful. How i wish there's more such Temple Grandin in this world
There are other famous ASD people in the world as well.
I found this link. But you are right, even so there are a few successful people, it doesnt mean our kids will be like them.
We need to also manage our own expectations of our kids. We must let them know how much we love them and we will always be supporting them.
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-autistics-known-today.php
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