All About Autism
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Mummies ,
Do u know "Baby plus"?
I use this while I’m pregnant w my son. Maybe this cause him ASD
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Happy teachers’ day all mummies here .
We are our child’s teacher too… -
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 !! -
ImMeeMee:
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.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. -
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. -
mashy:
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.
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.
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. -
helplessmum3:
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.Mummies ,
Do u know \"Baby plus\"?
I use this while I'm pregnant w my son. Maybe this cause him ASD -
I dont know if my own experience will help you immeemee, but I’ll share & you take what might help you.
It was a gradual process for us. If you want to teach her about today, yesterday, tomorrow, then start by teaching her the days of the week. Drill her on the sequence first, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday etc. I used YouTube videos & sang the songs to him. I can’t remember if I used visual but it is a very powerful tool- you may wanna use very simple charts. I find those commercial charts are too cluttered with other information like weather etc. Don’t use those. Make a simple one with just days of the week, better in timeline format, something you can also highlight what day is ‘today’.
Once she’s familiar with the sequence of days of the week. Then you can introduce to her what today means. Maybe at the start of each day, just announce out loud, today is Monday! Show her the chart. Keep doing that for as long as she gets it. Once in awhile get her to repeat after you or ask her what day is today (after telling her the day). Once she picks that up, tell her what ‘yesterday’ means. Say, today is ‘monday’ (show her the chart), yesterday was Sunday (show her the chart). Then move on with tomorrow.
As for just now & later concept, like mashy, I found he understood better after I taught him how to read the time. I started to use a digital clock first 'cause it’s easier. But the child must know how to read numbers & know the sequence of numbers I.e 4 is after 3 and before 5 etc.
Yes, it’s a long drawn process. Actually, your daughter is 3? Still very young. Time concept might even be too complicated for NT kids at 3? -
Blokus
Thanks for sharing. My dd3 is 5yo this year. You know, I also hope she is younger than 5 so that I can have a bigger window to help her …
I have been teaching her days of the week and time telling but not that intensive. You are probably right that I should start off with days sequence and time telling as building blocks before the other stuff. Will work that out first.
Slmkhoo
Truth be told, I also can’t recall how my two NT gals learn about such things. Somehow they just pick up along the way. For dd3, I trust that she will learn it one day too, just that need to find different ways to teach her and need to go through a longer process.
Thanks all, I found my answer.
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Mummies
Just thought to share that the Autism Resource Centre organizes quite a lot of workshops periodically for parents. For October, there are a few that are currently open for registration and in particular, there is one in mid October that is on coaching social play skills for pre-school and lower primary levels.
I understand that registration fees are about $70 but you can apply for caregivers grant, which allows quite substantial subsidy. I recall I went for one previously where I only needed to pay about $10 nett.
Do check it out and see if it helps your cause:
http://www.autism.org.sg/training/calendar.php
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