All About Autism

[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.

[Blokus]

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?

[ImMeeMee]

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.

[ImMeeMee]

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

[Fizz]

Hi


My son has just been diagnosed with atypical autism. I know that the diagnosis is a bit late. We have opt to let him joim mainstream P1 next year. I am feeling rather jittery.

Are there anyone whose ASD kids are joining mainstream P1 next year?

[Blokus]

Hi Fizz!


My son is going a year after.

Is your son Attending kindergarten at the moment? If he's managable, perhaps he'll be fine at pri? I heard asd kids do better at pri school cause there's more structure & routine.

[Double E]

Mummies

Recently my boy knows how to defend himself when his younger sister tries to snatch his toys. But he is doing it the wrong way, instead of verbalising, he pushes his sister.

Also, when other kids try to play with him or talk to him, he will smile and uses his hand to push them on the head. I think he is trying to respond to them but doesn’t know how to do it.

He is 3.5 years old. When your kids are at this age, how do you teach him? Tried to teach him to verbalise but not sure how to go about doing it and he only do it when I prompt him. Otherwise, he will use Push communicate to his little friends and sister.

[Gifts from Heaven]

Blokus:

nugget:

[quote=\"Blokus\"]Nugget


Did you ask the pd why she suggested Pathlight? How old is your son by the way? I lost track, pai say.

My son turning 5 this year. I never ask her why leh, but I guess mainstream school does a lot of writing and if he cant write, he cannot cope?

Feel like wasting time to visit her. I knew nothing good will come out of that session. THey just see us for 20 mins, how much will they know? I bet some NT kids also cannot add. I tested my son, 2+ 2 he say 4. Lolz

Hahaha! Take it with a pinch of salt I say! Only you know his abilities well. Not bad wat, can add what![/quote]Hi nugget,
I think your doc is just passing a casual comment. As far as I know, the kid needs to be assessed to see if he is suitable for mainstream P1 come nearer to P1 registration time. That's what my psychologist said after we got the diagnosis for my boy. I din probe more 'cos was overwhelmed with too much info at that time. Will find out more from her in our next review in Dec. My boy is also 5 this yr.