All About Autism

[mashy]

ImMeeMee:

helplessmum3:

mummies,


pls pray for me, i manage to find a cc for my son, they have trails for two weeks, hope goes well. wish me luck mUmmies

helplessmum

Thought to share about my current quest for a mainstream childcare centre for my daughter, which I have not posted much about.

Since my daughter was diagnosed about 2 years ago, I have always placed her at a EIPIC school. Because she didnt seem ready to go to mainstream childcare, I have put that off for a while. But along the way I have come to realize that she needs to build her social awareness and social interaction skills, and she needs to be more familiar with crowds (and chaos) to eventually prepare her for primary school education. Since sometime last year I have been looking for a mainstream cc for her. You know, up to today I am still looking.

The things that I tried along the way:

1. one montessori cc who had vacancies, and was willing to let her try. I brough my daughter to 2 paid trial classes, but realized that it was not suitable - the kids could climb ladders at their own will and play with glass things.

2. then spoke to a cc and the centre was understanding to special needs children. was about to enrol when EIPIC informed that we needed to make changes to her program including timing and location. had to put the cc on hold, since I didnt want my daughter to have to adapt to too many new things at one time.

3. after settling down at EIPIC, spoke to the cc again, ding dong for a few times and finally was informed that there were no vacancies.

4. called up a cc near the EIPIC school, and it had vacancies. Went for viewing and the P was empathetic. But realized that it was not suitable cos the school was ethnically not the right fit.

5. called up a cc near home and was informed that the school had vacancies. Was happy and informed the school about my daughter's condition. School promised to follow up with P, but next day when I called, the cc informed that there were no vacancies. Left a message for P to return my call but dead silence eventually (this one, I really felt bitter).

6. along the way called up all the kindergartens around my area only to be told that there are no vacancies and had to be placed on wait list. Some of them had vacancies but could not fit in terms of timing.

7. Just viewed a cc that is newly opened last weekend, and now waiting for the school's response on my daughter.

Truth be told, I feel totally frustrated and exasperated just clearing this hurdle. And I have not even reached the stage of dealing with challenges when she enters the cc, which is a differnt hurdle altogether.

Just want to share with you that it can be a tough process, but I have not given up yet cos giving up is not an option. And every time I interface with a cc I will be upfront with them on my daughter's condition, cos I feel it has to be fair both ends. The school must be willing to embrace my child before we can proceed further.

Hope this helps and best wishes on the new cc.

I heard chiltern house had a resident therapist! If u can afford, maybe can call and ask if they still have a resident therapist. I thought its quite unusual for a cc to have a therapist.

[helplessmum3]

Immeemee,


i hold on to the current cc while trying out the trials. i will postpone rainbow… let my son try a small size classroom in normal cc first. if he survive, i think life skill i can teach him at home… also EPIC at rainbow use PECS, my son cant related tis … i worried fall back cuz my son is very verbal now.

also because of current cc cost, i cant afford rainbow…

at rainbow everying is very structure , they use E-step… no good!

so example, if my son can write free hand, why mus he die die mus use stacils to write… its thier top down teaching, so cant helpit kind… they are trying to cater for all special needs kids…

[ImMeeMee]

Thanks mummies for your kind concern.


Yes did enquire about church kindergarten but the timing was not right. I don’t think I have a chiltern near my house n vicinity is also one key consideration for us due to logistics needs.

[ImMeeMee]

helplessmum3:

Immeemee,


i hold on to the current cc while trying out the trials. i will postpone rainbow.. let my son try a small size classroom in normal cc first. if he survive, i think life skill i can teach him at home.. also EPIC at rainbow use PECS, my son cant related tis .. i worried fall back cuz my son is very verbal now.

also because of current cc cost, i cant afford rainbow..

at rainbow everying is very structure , they use E-step... no good!

so example, if my son can write free hand, why mus he die die mus use stacils to write.. its thier top down teaching, so cant helpit kind.. they are trying to cater for all special needs kids...

Not all EIPIC centres use PECS n follow the same structure like Rainbow. some centres are more flexible n mix autistic n non autistic children together. You can check out with CEL.

[helplessmum3]

Uh? I did not know. But y rainbow has the higher wait list ?


I thought all cel eipic are the same.

Ok I will cel to check.

Thanks

[nugget]

My son is in Metta preschool. Not all kids there are ASD.


There is new cc at punggol mrt that accepts special needs too.. If you live near the area can try out..

http://www.littlemightyme.com/#!mighty_class/cr5s

I spoke to a special needs teacher in my son future primary school.. She say reading n writing skills is very impt if they want to be in mainstream... So I got a bit of work here... My son hates writing. Lol

[mashy]

nugget:

My son is in Metta preschool. Not all kids there are ASD.


There is new cc at punggol mrt that accepts special needs too.. If you live near the area can try out..

http://www.littlemightyme.com/#!mighty_class/cr5s

I spoke to a special needs teacher in my son future primary school.. She say reading n writing skills is very impt if they want to be in mainstream... So I got a bit of work here... My son hates writing. Lol

Mine also hates writing. For the first half of this yr in pri, the teachers had difficulty getting him started on his school work. He will only write nos for Chinese lessons and refused to do English writing. So end up school work became homework. We did many things to motivate him, also caned and punished him. Finally he came to his senses in Term 3. Now he's doing his work independently. His teacher is also so proud of him. Reading is not an issue for him though.

[Blokus]

Even can read and write, may still be tough. My son has no issues with both but he can’t form a proper sentence structure let alone create a simple story. So I’m very worried for him when it comes to composition. P1-2 still ok but P3 onwards would be really hard. Very concern. So now I try to make him do copy work. Since he’s

Memory is good, hopefully as he copies he remembers the sentences and perhaps learn to tweak them and use them in future.

[specialboymum]

Blokus:

Even can read and write, may still be tough. My son has no issues with both but he can't form a proper sentence structure let alone create a simple story. So I'm very worried for him when it comes to composition. P1-2 still ok but P3 onwards would be really hard. Very concern. So now I try to make him do copy work. Since he's

Memory is good, hopefully as he copies he remembers the sentences and perhaps learn to tweak them and use them in future.

My boy is also having problem with composition, so much so that his school teacher has to give him special concession i.e more time and with prompt in order to complete his test. I have spoken to his speech and language therapist, who told me the only way now is for him to memorize short sentences

[mashy]

That’s why I sent my boy to British council, hopefully to improve his comprehension and composition skills. So far not too bad, he had been able to write sentences and even attempted to spell those that he didn’t know.