All About Autism
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helplessmum3:
They are not into passionate kind for these teachers .
They are profit or money driven n want elite kids to make their school have the name n get more sales..
Some preschool teachers r like that too. Always boil down to individual but at enrichment school there are more such teachers.
Can check w Double E, her son goes berries Chinese .
Karkar,
Double E 's son is more connect.. He can express hee!
My son just know how to requests n ask to hug n kiss.
Express not as good..
I think it depends on the nature of the person. Can't say because is enrichment centres, all the teachers there have no compassion and all are profit driven.
At Berries I didn't encounter any situation similar to Kar Kar's friend, so I can't really comment. But based on my observation, the teachers and the admin persons at Berries are professional and friendly. Before I enroll my son, I told them about his condition. They agreed to take my boy in after observing him during trial class.
My boy is with Berries for the 3rd term already and there are times that he does not sit still and wants to stand up when the teacher is teaching. The form teacher is very kind to assign another teacher to sit with my boy to manage him. My boy is learning and he has been able to read all the chinese characters taught by Berries. Now is really up to me to speak mandarin with him more often to put the words he learned into practice.
Personally, I feel that Berries is very value for money. The fees is $300plus for a term (12 weeks), they do not have term break (only once a year), the class is 1.5 hrs and comes with a lot of teaching materials which are within the course fees. More importantly, they have made learning Chinese interesting. My boy looks forward to his Berries class. -
Double E, berries is it on sat?
At what age u send yr son there . Which branch he attend .
My son love Chinese .
Hiaz -
Double E,
MMI did not teach Chinese in school ? That’s y u send yr son to berries separately ? -
helplessmum3:
Double E,
MMI did not teach Chinese in school ? That's y u send yr son to berries separately ?
The CC does teach Chinese. But since he does not reject Chinese, so just send him to Berries to enhance it. -
I totally agree with all mummies here. It’s the nature of the person. If out of 3 teachers, 2 were there and gave no notice to all these distressed kids, that’s pretty bad yah…
It really takes time to find a good school with good teachers. not easy. My neighbour also had a terrible experience with CC. omg, i couldn’t believe that those bad experience is so near me, my friend and my neighbour.
Mummies, i have another doubt in my mind now. I engaged a private centre to do clinical assessment on my son this coming Thu. case manager told me that if we go through the evaluation with them, we can’t go to KK , which is on 11 Oct. They both use the same method to assess the kid. She was very frank and said it’s not ethical to do that. She warned me before choosing them.
reasons to go for private assessment: 1) i dont need a diagnosis or confirmation now since my son is 2 and he’s not very obvious. most likely KK would say can’t diagnose too young, come back at 4. 2) i am using the same centre for future therapies. this evaluation they perform will give them and us more direction on how to help my son. it’s like setting the foot right before the start. hope it’s more effective.
reasons to go for KK: 1) i am being Kiasu. Private is expensive, i set a target of 1 year for this expensive private intervention. but what if it is not working out well?? when my son turns 3 or 4, the long term private intervention will drain my family, slowly i need to send him to gov intervention, since cheaper or possibly future subsidy. Usually they have long wait list. so i can get the diagnosis first and queue up first. 2) it’s cheaper to sign up for KK’s Henan program and possibly other parent training program.
I need advice. Thanks. -
helplessmum3:
Helplessmum3, you dont give up, okay? My son doesn't bond with me. sob. sob. if he can bond with any family member, i really dont mind...sob.sob.They are not into passionate kind for these teachers .
They are profit or money driven n want elite kids to make their school have the name n get more sales..
Some preschool teachers r like that too. Always boil down to individual but at enrichment school there are more such teachers.
Can check w Double E, her son goes berries Chinese .
Karkar,
Double E 's son is more connect.. He can express hee!
My son just know how to requests n ask to hug n kiss.
Express not as good..
heard that more than word program from Hanen not bad. if your son's gone through assessment in KK, they can refer you for half price..
i also just borrowed a book called \"motivate to communicate\". i let you know if its good after i go through it. -
Kar kar,
There is no reason why the private centre does not allow u to go to Kkh and at the same time go to them. What ethical reasons are they talking about? Is your son, u hv every right to get different specialists to assess him. Is the centre saying that once u start with them, u cannot turn to public hospital for help? Seems very unreasonable to me. I hv never heard of such demands from any of my private therapist or my private psychologist. -
Kar kar
Yar lor, why would it be ‘unethical’? It’s like I get a 2nd opinion what… Don’t get their reasoning.
I think you can identify the areas you need to work on even before the test. In other words, you don’t need to do the test to get a clear direction. If you enage a therapist or send him to the right centers, the therapists should be able to point out what & how to Go about helping your son without the test. He’s still young, there’s no hurry to get him tested.
You see, this is what’s happening with us now. My son’s test is in one week’s time. But I have interceded & went ahead to give him the social help skills he need even before the test. Apparently now, it seems that if we can give my son some time to work on certain things, we may be able to avoid the diagnosis. But he needs more time. So, I’m intending to push back the test- much as I’m eager to know, but I think I’ll give him more time to work on. Hopefully he will improve and maybe get a ‘lighter sentence’ hahaha. So you may want to consider, working with your son first, before getting tested? I’m not sure, just a thought. -
my daughter also goes to berries
she has been with berries since nursery.
whenever there is a change of teacher, due to new year, i will talk to the teacher before hand to advise her of my daughter's condition.
when she reached P1, i was talking to the teacher about her on the 1st term. then the teacher was quite funny, told me\" oh , you don't worry about her, i was her relief teacher a few times before during kindergarten , i know her pattern \"
but my daughter loves going to Berries :rahrah:
She can't really speak chinese before going there , but now though her chinese pronociation is still quite off now and then, but i think her recognition of the words have improved alot. she actually got 29/30 for her CA2 :rahrah:
she also has an assistant teacher in berries during her class. both her teachers are very patient to her and also will pull her aside to teach her 1-1 when they notice that she needs help during the written assignment.
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chibi:
my daughter also goes to berries
she has been with berries since nursery.
whenever there is a change of teacher, due to new year, i will talk to the teacher before hand to advise her of my daughter's condition.
when she reached P1, i was talking to the teacher about her on the 1st term. then the teacher was quite funny, told me\" oh , you don't worry about her, i was her relief teacher a few times before during kindergarten , i know her pattern \" but my daughter loves going to Berries :rahrah:
She can't really speak chinese before going there , but now though her chinese pronociation is still quite off now and then, but i think her recognition of the words have improved alot. she actually got 29/30 for her CA2 :rahrah:
she also has an assistant teacher in berries during her class. both her teachers are very patient to her and also will pull her aside to teach her 1-1 when they notice that she needs help during the written assignment.
:please:
Chibi
That's good to know. Wow! 29/30 is very good. I agree, generally the teachers at Berries are very friendly and professional.
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