All About Autism

[helplessmum3]

Hi Nuggets, thanks for your advise,

is your child already at epic?


any mummies here ,your child already in rainbow?

[nugget]

I think life skills are things skills learnt to make our lives better and happier…


Some of the life skills are taught, some you gain through experience. Things like taking turns, showing empathy, enjoying music and exercise, how to talk to people, appreciate yourself and people around you…

[nugget]

helplessmum3:

Hi Nuggets, thanks for your advise,

is your child already at epic?


any mummies here ,your child already in rainbow?

Yup my kid is at eipic almost 1 year already. I feel eipic had help him a lot. I think he would be much much worse if not for his eipic.

[helplessmum3]

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[helplessmum3]

nugget:

helplessmum3:

Hi Nuggets, thanks for your advise,

is your child already at epic?


any mummies here ,your child already in rainbow?

Yup my kid is at eipic almost 1 year already. I feel eipic had help him a lot. I think he would be much much worse if not for his eipic.

which epic centre he attend? morning session or afternoon sessions?

[helplessmum3]

nugget:

I think life skills are things skills learnt to make our lives better and happier...


Some of the life skills are taught, some you gain through experience. Things like taking turns, showing empathy, enjoying music and exercise, how to talk to people, appreciate yourself and people around you...

weekend i met my fren son who same age as my son. he talk so much!! i din know NT kid is like tat .. heart broken

[mashy]

helplessmum3:

nugget:

I think life skills are things skills learnt to make our lives better and happier...


Some of the life skills are taught, some you gain through experience. Things like taking turns, showing empathy, enjoying music and exercise, how to talk to people, appreciate yourself and people around you...

weekend i met my fren son who same age as my son. he talk so much!! i din know NT kid is like tat .. heart broken

I bet that friend's son can't read as well as yours. Your boy has his strengths too. Stop obsessing about his weakness. Although my NT gal can talk very well, I don't foresee her able to read at the age when my boy started reading.

[ImMeeMee]

Helplessmum


I don’t know exactly what is the definition of life skills cos its a very broad term. But I can share with you the different areas that my daughter’s EIPIC centre looks into as a reference:

1. Gross motor skills - eg. Ability to climb stairs independently, ability to maintain balance, jump, run and walk properly.
2. Fine motor skills - eg ability to work with small objects, ability to use fingers appropriately etc, leading to writing n desk work.
3. Cognitive development - the ABCs and 123s; reading, counting and the usual stuff that we have been discussing about in academics.
4. Adaptive skills - eg. Ability to self feed, toileting, dress/undress. Something like self-help skills.
5. Social knowledge - social awareness and ability to interact with peers.
6. Social communication - ability to communicate for one’s needs, eg. Asking for help.

To a certain extent, all the above are life skills. There is no official priority on which comes first, and the focus depends on what are the gaps of the child.

[ImMeeMee]

Then again just went for a talk on early intervention from an overseas speaker who is an expert in this area and he shared that the foundational skills in ASD are joint attention and imitation.


I suppose these are not exactly life skills but learning different skills could be more effective if the child has these two foundational skills, because there could be a lot more incidental learning.

[Double E]

Yes, imitation skills are very impt. They need to observe and copy from others so that they can do things on their own.