All About Autism

[nugget]

Helplessmum,


Nope. They say they dun do PECS or ABA specifically. Cos his center has not only ASD children, but also those mildly intellectually disabled or slower kids as well.

They do structure programs, OT, classroom activities, social group therapy etc instead.

But I do see they make use of picture cards to do structure routines and lay out activities.

[helplessmum3]

nugget:

helplessmum3:

My son is verbal toO but they say this will help the verbal group too..


Worry n confuse . Rainbow hav structure learning jus for autistic other eipic centre do not have

Helplessmum,

Dun be worry, if your son is already in EIPIC, I am sure he is in good care. Have faith in your son's teachers and therapist. I often call them to ask abt the progress of my son. You need need to work hand in hand with the EIPIC to help your child.

Rainbow is a good centre and PECS is one good way to communicate with kids.

My son not in epic center yet, got to wait for rainbow 9months to 1 yrs....went for the centre tour and i saw all the pecs all over the classes & rooms...

[helplessmum3]

nugget:

Helplessmum,


Nope. They say they dun do PECS or ABA specifically. Cos his center has not only ASD children, but also those mildly intellectually disabled or slower kids as well.

They do structure programs, OT, classroom activities, social group therapy etc instead.

But I do see they make use of picture cards to do structure routines and lay out activities.

where is your son centre?

[concern2]

Are autistic children here already using the iPad?


See this in 60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385686n

[phtthp]

Signpost KK hospital


http://www.kkh.com.sg/AboutUs/Newsroom/Pages/01-03-2011.aspx

[concern2]

phtthp:

Signpost KK hospital


http://www.kkh.com.sg/AboutUs/Newsroom/Pages/01-03-2011.aspx

Commendable! Glad to know KK has this.

[nugget]

helplessmum3:

nugget:

Helplessmum,


Nope. They say they dun do PECS or ABA specifically. Cos his center has not only ASD children, but also those mildly intellectually disabled or slower kids

They do structure programs, OT, classroom activities, social group therapy etc instead.

But I do see they make use of picture cards to do structure routines and lay out activities.

where is your son centre?

[nugget]

concern2:

phtthp:

Signpost KK hospital


http://www.kkh.com.sg/AboutUs/Newsroom/Pages/01-03-2011.aspx

Commendable! Glad to know KK has this.

This course is a total of 6-8 weeks. One lesson per week. And its subsidized (think I paid abt 100++ only) but you need to participate in a lengthy written survey before , during and after the course.

I find it useful as a course and you get to meet parents with other kids who have problems as well. Every parents have their own challenges and we will break out into small groups, brainstorm and see how to change our kids behavior.

[ImMeeMee]

nugget:

Have you all attended this session conducted by KKH called \"Signpost\"? Its about managing difficult behaviour in children. It can be applied to special needs / NT children.

I think somehow my kid is better behave after I went through this course. It teaches us how not to give in to the kid when they are behaving badly, only rewarding them on good behaviour, preempting family activities and watch out for ques when they are going to flare tantrums.

Last time, for a while, we dare not even dare to dine out cos my son will just walk out of the restaurant after finishes his meal or will hide under the table. :imdrowning:

These few weeks we managed to dine out successful *phew* without him throwing any tantrums. I am still learning the process. Its not a foolproof method but it somehow helps to minimize the occurrence.

helplessmum3:

ImMeeMee.
Oh nO. What happen? Is she unwell? What did her OT advise in such situation how shd u handle her?

If she shout or yell, u try to ignore her then once she cool down . U try to tell her firmly n calmly of what u want her to do again.

we have attended the signpost program before, and agree with nugget that it teaches good techniques on positive reinforcement, prepping the child and so on. good for you nugget, the technique is working for you

our challenge is that we do not know what are the triggers to dd3's outbursts, and the onset can be quite haphazzard and abrupt. where she was ok to go to the shopping centre to take her kiddy rides last week, she can throw a big tantrum when we go into the same shopping centre this week, at the same entrance some more. :?

i have tried all sorts of things ... telling her firmly that her behavior is not right, coaxing her with singing and counting upwards or downwards, hugging her when she is upset, using her 'friends' to tell her to behave properly (she seems to have imaginery friends that she calls out to when she is upset) ... but sometimes they work and sometimes they dont ... :?

therapists tell me that as she becomes more aware of her environment she could be coming out of her 'shell' and going through the 'terrible twos' period (at 4 yo plus ) that NT go through.

so i try to look at the glass half full ... but then ... still haiz when there are days of numerous tantrums and have to deal with them. :sad:

[ImMeeMee]

helplessmum3:

Nugget, at rainbow center they use pecs for both verbal n non verbal.

my private ex-SLT started off with PECS on dd3. it was intended as a form of communication. it has quite a few modules, and the first few modules focused on exchanging a picture card with what the child wants, starting from across the table, and then progressing to a distance. it also focused on using the picture card to prompt the child to say the object and then exchanging for the object. i think after that the focus was on sentence formation and it adds on.

after the first 2 modules or so we told the SLT to drop PECS as dd3's verbal language was emerging and we did not want to rely PECS as a form of communication. the SLT understood and she changed her technique to picture cards to support communication, rather than PECS as the main form of communication. the same picture cards were used, but for different purposes.

picture cards can be used to help in verbal communication through story boards. it could also help to lend structure by preparing the child on schedules and planned activities. This approach is slightly different from PECS. Up to today I am still using picture cards, or sometimes I improvise by drawing on the board when I cannot find the right pictures.

From our experience, PECS was good to 'force' speech out of the child, but once the child was verbal, we found that we wanted to change our strategies.

also, every child at the EIPIC centre will have a IEP (individual education plan) that is reviewed every 6 months. If you assess that your child does not need PECS, do raise it with the team of teachers and therapists at the EIPIC centre. they are usually accomodating and willing to work with parents on individual needs.

hope this helps.