All About Autism

[mashy]

Karkar:

mashy:

Karkar
Is it echololia? Like repeating phrases from tv, words immediately after u said it?

For games, I got from ELC and toys r us. They have lots of interactive games. I bought a game recently from ELC which is to tie a bumble bee on our forehead and we are supposed to fish out the balls with the bee. Quite hilarious and we had a good time playing it. There are also lots of other fun games to try out.

Hi mashy,

now i am pretty certain he is. for 23month old, he doesn't talk to you..he sings songs, hum the tune, or count 123 or abc if he does speak. or sometimes you said look that side and pointed, he didnt follow you and continue with his own playing at the same time repeat what you said 3-4 times..so guess it's considered echololia liao.. how to train him not to do that and encourage him to talk to people by ourselves?
[edit: found this, http://littlechildren.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/echolalia/ guess it's normal for his age now]

i realize my son doesn't point to something interesting and share with us like Nt kids do. i really wanna strong bonding with him but..

like this afternoon, i played him on blocks..he likes to throw things to floor, i stopped and hit his hands, but he still continued to do that as if i was transparent. i really dont know how to enter his world. i shall google \"how to share joint attention\".

Haha, my NT gal does the same to me. I tell her not to throw, she will purposedly throw. So I guess it may just be part of growing up.

My boy also didn't point and show us anything until one day, he pointed out the moon to us! We pointed e moon to him before and told him look, the moon is round. There's the moon! He likes round stuff, so after a while, he started to point the moon and tell us that's e moon. Perhaps u can start with something he likes. Like if he likes car, point to cars. If he likes trains, point to trains when it goes by. Soon, he will get it that if he points to something, we look.

[mashy]

Regarding echololia, I also dunno what u can do. My boy just quotes from books or from tv but not often enough to be considered that. We didn't have a proper conversation until he was quite old. it was a huge relief when my younger gal started talking and could have a conversation with me. Sometimes I think she's even better than him. It's a refreshing change. I think he started learning conversation skills bit by bit. We can now have a decent conversation. When he couldn't talk very well, we used a lot of yes/no questions. Even when he could talk more, he was more into reading his book aloud or telling me facts that he read. Not so much as a conversation. It just happened gradually after we started asking him questions about the things he like. Like what are e planets in the solar system, what is this and that.


I think my hb is really good at this. At night, before they sleep, my hb talks to him. Asked him about his day, what are his happy thoughts for the day, etc. my boy is able to tell him things that he won't tell me. They sing silly songs together and 'rewrite' songs with their made up lyrics.

[ImMeeMee]

Mummies


Would like to find out how you teach your kids about time concept. Not the time telling like 7 oclock or half past six, but more of just now/now/later, yesterday/today/tmr etc. I find that its difficult to coach cos such time concepts are intangible, and unlike time telling, I can’t find proper manipulatives to teach the concept.

Now I am only at the stage of just now and now, and even with this my daughter is not fully able to appteciate the concept. What are the strategies and tools that you use in this instance?

TIA for sharing.

[helplessmum3]

Mummies ,


Do u know "Baby plus"?

I use this while I’m pregnant w my son. Maybe this cause him ASD

[helplessmum3]

Happy teachers’ day all mummies here .


We are our child’s teacher too…

[helplessmum3]

KarKar…


I hav same feeling like u…mayb u teach yr son to kiss u…

After awhile , my son understand kiss is miss or love.
So whenever I reached home late after class , he kiss me n hug me when I reached home … At least can feel some bonding…

Duno is it just me . I’m dying to hav connects w my child very much !!

[mashy]

ImMeeMee:

Mummies


Would like to find out how you teach your kids about time concept. Not the time telling like 7 oclock or half past six, but more of just now/now/later, yesterday/today/tmr etc. I find that its difficult to coach cos such time concepts are intangible, and unlike time telling, I can't find proper manipulatives to teach the concept.

Now I am only at the stage of just now and now, and even with this my daughter is not fully able to appteciate the concept. What are the strategies and tools that you use in this instance?

TIA for sharing.

Haha, I have the same prob. My boy still can't tell me whether it happened just now, or last week. Everything that passed was yesterday. He can read time very well as in 5pm, 7.23pm, 9.27am to the very minute. So I made use of that instead.

[happyheart]

Hi mummies,

I chanced upon this website.
http://www.acurebrainlab.com/solutions/autism-2.html.
First time hearing about their products. Does anyone has feedback? It may be helpful.

[ImMeeMee]

mashy:

Haha, I have the same prob. My boy still can't tell me whether it happened just now, or last week. Everything that passed was yesterday. He can read time very well as in 5pm, 7.23pm, 9.27am to the very minute. So I made use of that instead.

My daughter is beginning to be able to use 'just now' with things that just passed. But she jumbles everything up and uses 'just now' for events that could have happened yesterday or earlier as well.

Any cues from the other mummies? I feel that this part of the building block will contribute towards helping the child relate to sequence of events in the daily life.

[ImMeeMee]

helplessmum3:

Mummies ,


Do u know \"Baby plus\"?

I use this while I'm pregnant w my son. Maybe this cause him ASD

helplessmum, dont be so hard on yourself. Whatever has happened has happened. I'm sure you have read enough to know that there is currently still no known cause for ASD.