All About Autism

[Fizz]

mashy:

nugget:

can i rant? just when i say my boy is turning better, he acting out again today.. suddenly refuse to cross the road at the traffic light . ask him why he dun want to say. after 3 rounds of green man then he cross. then next while crossing the zebra crossing, a car stop for us and he sat down and refuse to cross. really dunno whats wrong with him today.


he knows is wrong to do all these and yet he doesnt cooperate. argh...

I think somedays they need to find that rhythm in them? My son had to jump on every strip on the pavement. Even tip toe to get pass it. Extremely frustrating when we are in a rush. Argh.

Maybe it's just one of the off days, we have off days too and want to do things a bit differently. Maybe tomorrow he'll be fine again. Cheer up!

I can identify with that too. My boy had to step on this metal covering the oil hole every morning otw to school and he would go banging on the cover with his feet. My girl would follow suit. HENG it was covered with cement lately. And some days when we throw toilet paper into the waste paper basket, he can raise such a din because \"toilet paper must be thrown into the toilet bowl\"!!!

[Fizz]

helplessmum3:

Is phonics important ? I never teach my son before , cuz myself always very clueless how phonics works ...


He only know how to spell

Well, during my time, I never learnt phonics but still figured out reading and spelling I guess phonics has become somewhat a must go through learning route is because most schools are adopting it due to the need for accelerated learning. If a child has very good memory, IMO, it's fine to go through the memory route. As long as the end objective is met. Not all words can be read using phonics, eg sight words and funny words like stomach etc.

[helplessmum3]

Lavendery !

Fantasic ! Yr daughter is so progress well .. She about the same age as my son

Yr girl n double e boy are so blessed to go leap frog by their parents .:)

I have no choice at all, what is the minimum to pay for leap frog therapist ?

[helplessmum3]

Fizz,

Oh my thanks. Then I must try tO teach my son phonics…
Any good teaching materials for phonics for my son? DVD or bOoks ?

[helplessmum3]

Lavendery , ARC stands for?

[helplessmum3]

Lavendery,

Can teach me what/how tO teach my son at hOme?

especially on asking patents questions , express her feeling n talk about surounding?

For feeling my son only say "I’m angry" when he is upset when I don’t him
Him what he want .

[lavendery]

ARC stands for Autism Resource Centre. It only accepts kids who are diagnosed with autism. It is one of the government EIPIC. Besides ARC, there's also Rainbow, AWWA, Feiyue, SPD, Thye Hua Kwan etc which accepts kids with other forms of disabilities.


Actually I didn't really train her much at home. I'm mainly using pictures and I try to explain to her the expressions of the people in the pics. Eventually I think she get the idea and soon she is able to say she is happy, sad and scare. But so far she has not been able to say that she is angry. Usually when she is angry, she will start crying out loudly

She only started to talk about people and things happening around her last month only. What I did is to talk excessively and unnecessary. Even when I walk with her, I will just comment 'look at the road, it is rough! Or look at my left side, there's grass. It's green in colour! Look at the sky, it's blue colour. I see clouds up in the sky.' Its a lot of rubbish talking to normal people.

Now she started to learn to become more aware, look around and making comments on the things she saw and observed.

There's pros and cons ever since she has become more aware of her surrounding. Con is she has also started to make insensitive remarks which could make me feel like digging a hole to hide my head. Two weeks ago there's was a very big tall oversize American guy walking towards her in the therapy centre. She exclaimed very loudly infront of him \"Oh my god, you are so fat!\". I grabbed a magazine besides me and held up the magazine very near my face to hide my embarassement :oops:

[ImMeeMee]

ArielMermaid:

Hi,
Thanks for this. Sometimes, I'd have doubts if I'd be short-changing my son, especially during the days when he's like an angel. However, whenever I see how happy he is to go to Rainbow(vs his mainstream child care) and how different the teachers' attitudes in the institutions are, I feel that I have to let him have a happy childhood.... Anyway, I haven't received any notification from PL on the enrollment. If he doesn't get in there, I'd treat it as a message from God and let him go to the primary school, with a shadow teacher if the school allows. It'd be more mentally and emotionally taxing for him and me, not to mention financially draining!

From the briefing at PL, it appears that if deemed suitable, the children in \"foundation\" may be promoted to \"standard P1\" during the school term. Otherwise, the students in foundation would be promoted to standard P1 in the following year.

ArielMermaid

Thanks for the inspiration ...

[ImMeeMee]

lavendery:

ARC stands for Autism Resource Centre. It only accepts kids who are diagnosed with autism. It is one of the government EIPIC. Besides ARC, there's also Rainbow, AWWA, Feiyue, SPD, Thye Hua Kwan etc which accepts kids with other forms of disabilities.


Actually I didn't really train her much at home. I'm mainly using pictures and I try to explain to her the expressions of the people in the pics. Eventually I think she get the idea and soon she is able to say she is happy, sad and scare. But so far she has not been able to say that she is angry. Usually when she is angry, she will start crying out loudly

She only started to talk about people and things happening around her last month only. What I did is to talk excessively and unnecessary. Even when I walk with her, I will just comment 'look at the road, it is rough! Or look at my left side, there's grass. It's green in colour! Look at the sky, it's blue colour. I see clouds up in the sky.' Its a lot of rubbish talking to normal people.

Now she started to learn to become more aware, look around and making comments on the things she saw and observed.

There's pros and cons ever since she has become more aware of her surrounding. Con is she has also started to make insensitive remarks which could make me feel like digging a hole to hide my head. Two weeks ago there's was a very big tall oversize American guy walking towards her in the therapy centre. She exclaimed very loudly infront of him \"Oh my god, you are so fat!\". I grabbed a magazine besides me and held up the magazine very near my face to hide my embarassement :oops:

Lavendery

So hilarious ...

That is what I do with my daughter also, point out things to her in the environment, sometimes so non-stop until really tired. And yes, she now becomes more aware of things around her and will initiate conversation by pointing out something around her, look at me and talk about it. Right now I am trying to use the 'W' and 'H' questions to guide her structure of thinking and conversation, as well as some simple cues like group, color, size etc. Its a bit rigid at the moment, but I think slowly they may integrate into their own thinking and become even more spontaneous.

I try to teach her 'round' instead of 'fat' because I also worried that she makes such comments . But my therapist has recommended that we should teach the extremes 'fat' and 'thin', before we teach 'round', which is more grey. :skeptical:

[ImMeeMee]

lavendery:

My girl OT used to be at HPB at Outram. But I find that no much use so I stopped after going there for 1mth. Anyway they go by blocks also. Then ARC called me up last mth saying got vacancy so my girl just started at ARC end of last mth. But ARC do not have ST and OT

So I still have to continue her ST at Leapfrog. For OT, I will just bring her to playground, cut cost. She is improving slowly. Now can start asking questions, request for things. Can start to express herself and talk about her surroundings.

I also noticed that mainstream teachers are less tolerance towards kids with special needs. But I cannot blame them cos they were not taught how to handle such kids. My girl faced some discrimination in certain ways. But no choice, I can only afford to send her to mainstream nursery.

She is still seeing DAN but not really on a frequent basis. Got money then go.
It's usually just eating supplements for healthier body. I think continuous therapies and practicing at home is still the best solution for our kids to improve. There's no quick easy method. It's a marathon.

lavendery, you have a DAN? In Singapore? Care to share more?