All About Autism
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slmkhoo:
My daughter is the opposite - her lack of coordination etc makes her too timid in physical matters. For eg, she couldn't walk down stairs without holding on to something until about 6yo. My daughter also loves drawing 'stories' but her artwork is poor, and her fine motor skills probably means that she can't really do better. We are trying to get her to work on crafting her stories better. Another thought could be to try to get her to use the computer to make her drawings better? But we are not sure if that's a good way, and we don't want her using the computer too many hours a day. She is 15yo.
Re judging distance: it's true in my boy's case. I'd call it reckless confidence! :evil:Fizz:
[quote=\"helplessmum3\"]Mashy my son also still clumsy.. I think also part of weak muscle in certain area or I think because not yet aware of body movements or poor in body conditions or poor in judging space...
Write some where some ASD they do not know how to
Judge distance . Like the things is 2steps away but they may judge ask 1 step away . Things like this ...
N co ordination cuz I think they are born to do things one at the time but body movements needs us to do few things at one time. Like walk n talk n see surrounding ..
These too require co ordination of brain maj
I train my boy's coordination and use of his brain through piano...it's a slow and often weepy process but I see results. Point is, he is very unmotivated unless it's drawing. I can't determine if it's an ASD characteristic or his attitude problem...whatever...we need to fix this!
My daughter also has an attitude problem - she only wants to do things she likes, and won't try to improve without a lot of pushing and sometimes we have to force her. We have always had to pick our issues and work on them at various times, and seriously, I am tired. We have dealt with a lot of the physical issues now - she can dress and self-care, she can write legibly, she can do simple kitchen stuff, she can climb stairs and move around safely. Now we are working on getting her to improve social and intellectual skills to progress in school and eventually find a career. But the motivation factor is a drag - the psychologist told me that it's the lack of social skills which makes her less willing to do things to please us and her teachers, so sometimes we just have to force her by setting times for various skills practice before we allow her to draw or use her computer (her main loves). To all of you with young kids, hang in there, and take it one step at a time.[/quote]Mine also hopeless in drawing. He's still drawing match stick pp without faces. But he loves drawing and will fill the page with loads of details.
Recently, we had to do some home based learning using the computer. My boy loves it. He spent 4-5 hours on it! After he finished his assignments, he continued to do more learning and practice within the website. So I think given appropriate boundaries, computer may not be a bad thing for them. It may even become a career choice. -
helplessmum3:
Honestly, I didn't do much. When he was young, he was just watching leapfrog DVD day in day out. We just read to him at night. Then out of the blue, we realised that he could read! We tested him by skipping pages and viola! We hit gold.Mummies ,
How u teach yr son to read?
from then on, we stopped reading to him but got him to read it himself while we correct his pronounciation. But then his articulation was pretty bad last time, so altho he articulated it badly, we could tell what he was reading.
I seriously doubt my younger gal will be able to read by next month, which is e age when we discovered our son could read. That day I typed 'Polyclinic' on the computer and she asked, 'is it my name?' Faint. She can't even recognize her own name! -
slmkhoo:
I think gals like fantasy books and boys like non fiction right? My gal is so into princess stories... When my boy started reading, he loved ducks and gooses so we had a lot of those books. But my gal avoided them like a plague. She likes human stories.mashy:
He stopped reading his science books for a while when I introduced Geronimo Stilton and Roald Dahl to him. Wanted him to read some fiction books to improve his imagination and creativity. I think it also help him socially coz some of his friends are also reading that now. Now he's back to Science books. And I love to see how smart he is. Hahaha. I think it's a confidence booster for both of us.
I use general fiction to teach my daughter social skills. I have limited her reading of fantasy because if I didn't, she wouldn't read anything else! Over the years, I have given her books featuring kids roughly her age who do ordinary things like going to school, family stories etc and use those as talking points. And of course, as you say, they can be something to talk about to friends. -
slmkhoo:
Oic. So it's just my princess! :slapshead:mashy:
I think gals like fantasy books and boys like non fiction right? My gal is so into princess stories... When my boy started reading, he loved ducks and gooses so we had a lot of those books. But my gal avoided them like a plague. She likes human stories.
As a generalisation that may be true. But my younger NT girl prefers 'real' stories athough she has read a good no. of fairy, fantasy etc stories too. And my ASD girl also like non-fiction. The only problem is that having found some that she likes, she reads them over and over again instead of reading more widely. Even now at 15yo, she still re-reads her Horrible History etc books! I am the one who has to constantly try to introduce (and often force) her to read new books. Luckily I love reading so it's not too much of a chore to me. She likes dipping into Wikipedia. What really makes me tired (because I have to do the explaining) is that she may know facts, but cannot draw inferences or conclusions, so her understanding is shallow.
My boy will also read over and over the same books. But he's 'open' to new books when I made him bring them to sch for reading period.
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mashy:
Don't tsk tsk at me but Im starting to worry that my 1 yo girl is dsylexic just coz she isn't recognizing words like her brother was! Although she is surely more interactive, communicative & reactive than hee bro was. Someone here mentioned that with an autism child in the house there's a chance the other sibling will have other disorder like dyslexia? That got me.
I seriously doubt my younger gal will be able to read by next month, which is e age when we discovered our son could read. That day I typed 'Polyclinic' on the computer and she asked, 'is it my name?' Faint. She can't even recognize her own name!
Helpless mum
I thought you say your son can read? You read to him daily, POINT to the words as you read. Very mafan but it helps. Choose books with short sentences and the same sentence get repeated throughout the book. It helps in word recognition. -
mashy:
whoa, DVD which title?
Honestly, I didn't do much. When he was young, he was just watching leapfrog DVD day in day out. We just read to him at night. Then out of the blue, we realised that he could read! We tested him by skipping pages and viola! We hit gold.helplessmum3:
Mummies ,
How u teach yr son to read? from then on, we stopped reading to him but got him to read it himself while we correct his pronounciation. But then his articulation was pretty bad last time, so altho he articulated it badly, we could tell what he was reading.
I seriously doubt my younger gal will be able to read by next month, which is e age when we discovered our son could read. That day I typed 'Polyclinic' on the computer and she asked, 'is it my name?' Faint. She can't even recognize her own name! -
slmkhoo:
i try reading to him he not interested, but he can recognize words ,but reading to him he no interested...
As some of us said earlier, read to him a lot to build language foundation and comprehension. Try to read for 15-20 mins a day at the minimum, and talk to him about the story - how people behave, how the speak, anything that sparks his interest. Kids learn to read most easily when they already have a good language foundation. When he is about 4yo, you can start teaching phonics (I gave you the link to Starfall earlier). Of course, he may have learned some sight words already by then if you read to him a lot.helplessmum3:
Mummies ,
How u teach yr son to read? -
Blokus,
he can read like words ei ice Cream, apple, Happy Birthday, Thank you. Daddy and mummy eating.. Girl is walking. This is a cat. simple one. but when come to books and i try to read to him he is not interested..
just words he more interested. story book with picutures very hard to read to him he is not interested at all :(.. whenever i try to read book to him he jus do other stuff or interupt me with his own talking... hiaz. -
slmkhoo:
i still very puzzle why he interestd in words but not interest with story books..Blokus:
Don't tsk tsk at me but Im starting to worry that my 1 yo girl is dsylexic just coz she isn't recognizing words like her brother was! Although she is surely more interactive, communicative & reactive than hee bro was. Someone here mentioned that with an autism child in the house there's a chance the other sibling will have other disorder like dyslexia? That got me.
Don't invite trouble! Take my younger girl as an encouragement. Anyway, no-one is going to be able to diagnose dyslexia so early.
Helpless mum
I thought you say your son can read? You read to him daily, POINT to the words as you read. Very mafan but it helps. Choose books with short sentences and the same sentence get repeated throughout the book. It helps in word recognition.
But don't only stick to the simple books only as they can be boring. Have a range of books - some he can try to decode himself, some you read to him just to enjoy the story. -
oh my, u really alert me ,SLMkhoo…
when is he best time to read to him, isit b4 bed?
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