All About Autism
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Helpless mum,
Every kid is different. My boss told me that her colleague at IDA is autistic, but he can manage the visitor centre and doing a very good job. -
Helplessmum,
Your son is so high functioning and can socialise, why u worry so much. As compare to the rest of us, your kid seems to be the mildest and the only kid among us who can play and like to play with peers. Dun worry unduly, you are just making the rest of us feel worst. -
Double E:
SPD seemed a lot cheaper by almost half! My girl does show some improvement in ARC. I realised that there's a lot of basic deficits which my girl is showing and yet i have totally overlooked.
Wow, ARC is expensive, 4 days for 1.5 hours. We pay $481 to SPD for 2 days, 2.5 hours each day. But I suppose is because ARC is more established for Autism EIPIC as compared to SPD. As long as your girl shows improvement, the money is worth it.
I did not even know that i still need to teach/train my girl the appropiate way of asking for help. Whenever she need help, she will just stand there looking at the object shouting/crying for help in frustration, my mum and i will rush to attend her and ask her what happen.
ARC teacher told me this is not correct. They taught her that she must come to us personally, tap our hand lightly to approach us for help instead of standing at the original place shouting loudly at the wall for help.
Now they are training her on how to take turns and share. Training her to be sociable and approach kids to play is still a far gap. -
helplessmum3:
Lavendary,
at cel website say ARC has ST & OT
http://www.cel.sg/uploads/EIPIC%20Service%20Matrix%20-%20July%202012.pdf
ARC teaches and address the functional deficits of each individual child. Each child will have a tailor specific goals/target for every term which is set up upon discussing with the child's ARC teacher and the parent.
ARC have level 0.5, level 1, level 2, level 3 and preparatory level. Ideally each kid will slowly promote to the higher level but I have also seen some kids stuck at the same level for years. I realised that they might not have the time to get promote to preparatory level (highest level) in time cos when they hit 6 years old, they can no longer be in EIPIC.
Hence the later/older the child is admitted, the harder the ARC teacher/parents have to work inorder to push the child to the appropiate levels. So time is not on my side now as my girl only has two years to get to preparatory level. She entered ARC end of last month only and she's approaching 4 years old by end of this Dec :nailbite:
If you noticed in the EIPIC matrix, ARC do not have the tick in ST and OT. There are no speech therapist and occupational therapist in ARC. What ARC teach is daily functional needs, circle time, table task work etc. They do have a gym classroom for simple gym activities, such as going into the tunnel, some climbing of slope and walking down the steps. -
slmkhoo:
Gals, don't need to say already lah, I think we have all said so much from the beginning. It's just like an NT mum whose kid scored 99% in the test and ask why isn't he scoring 100? No matter what we say, if that's what she feels about, nothing we can do. Only good luck to her kid because he will always be made to feel like a loser instead of a winner. It's just amazing how clever her son is despite the odds.
Why compare with the worst cases you see? You have already told us that your son does communicate and wants to interact with peers. And why compare your son with the best communicators you see? Even NT kids have a range of communication abilities, and personality also affects their ability and style of communication. I know a lot of NT people who are poor communicators. Communication also can be done in many ways, not all of them with the mouth or face-to-face. Nowadays, a lot of communication is in the form of the written word. And personally, I don't see why we would want our children to necessarily be the 'top' or the 'winner'. Knowing that they are not so social, that would probably be a great strain to them. But not being a 'winner' doesn't mean that they can't earn enough for a decent living and find satisfaction in life. After all, how many of us can be classified as 'winners'? Please, don't always look on the downside and expect the worst.helplessmum3:
i also done alot of deeds , every year i donate a sum of money to orphanage. though i earn not alot..
jus poor thing of my son he the one who suffer . y make my son suffer GOD..
what to do, the only way to feel better is that duno lie to myself anot... that this is actually a GIFT from GOD..
but after seeing the caregiver mediacorp documentary , kinda dishearted already.
cuz her son still do not know how to communicate to the social :(..
can do works alsomus know how to communicate mah.. see in real world who are the winner, those who top talker they are up there and yet done nothing much as the one doing below ;( -
mashy:
Gals, don't need to say already lah, I think we have all said so much from the beginning. It's just like an NT mum whose kid scored 99% in the test and ask why isn't he scoring 100? No matter what we say, if that's what she feels about, nothing we can do. Only good luck to her kid because he will always be made to feel like a loser instead of a winner. It's just amazing how clever her son is despite the odds.[/quote]
Why compare with the worst cases you see? You have already told us that your son does communicate and wants to interact with peers. And why compare your son with the best communicators you see? Even NT kids have a range of communication abilities, and personality also affects their ability and style of communication. I know a lot of NT people who are poor communicators. Communication also can be done in many ways, not all of them with the mouth or face-to-face. Nowadays, a lot of communication is in the form of the written word. And personally, I don't see why we would want our children to necessarily be the 'top' or the 'winner'. Knowing that they are not so social, that would probably be a great strain to them. But not being a 'winner' doesn't mean that they can't earn enough for a decent living and find satisfaction in life. After all, how many of us can be classified as 'winners'? Please, don't always look on the downside and expect the worst.slmkhoo:
[quote=\"helplessmum3\"]i also done alot of deeds , every year i donate a sum of money to orphanage. though i earn not alot..
jus poor thing of my son he the one who suffer . y make my son suffer GOD..
what to do, the only way to feel better is that duno lie to myself anot... that this is actually a GIFT from GOD..
but after seeing the caregiver mediacorp documentary , kinda dishearted already.
cuz her son still do not know how to communicate to the social :(..
can do works alsomus know how to communicate mah.. see in real world who are the winner, those who top talker they are up there and yet done nothing much as the one doing below ;(
Agree, I think her son is the real winner. Despite not attending any therapy, he can still progress so well. -
Slmkhoo,
Thanks , just at times can’t help it I keep attracts negatives .
Mainly I think I not smart in sorting out .
My son got all helps from all mummies here . His progress are helped by u all.
Thank u a lot .
Double e, no choice my son is unlucky to born by me poor family.
But I hav u all here to help my son. -
Mashy , I’m a loser that y I don’t want son to be a loser.
I always got bully at works cuz I’m not good in communication .
Outspoken always wins although is unfair -
vincents mom:
Hi, you try these local online stores; Open Trolley (google using this title) & kinokuniya. I usually check these 2 stores first.Hi all, i have a 3 yr old son who diagnosed as ASD. Im currently looking for books in sg (b4 goto amazon). Can I know if anyone knows where to get this book?
\"1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition\"
many many thanks..... -
Blokus:
U can also compare prices at : http://www.bookdepository.com/1001-Great-Ideas-for-Teaching-Raising-Children-with-Autism-or-Aspergers-Ellen-Notbohm/9781935274063
Hi, you try these local online stores; Open Trolley (google using this title) & kinokuniya. I usually check these 2 stores first.vincents mom:
Hi all, i have a 3 yr old son who diagnosed as ASD. Im currently looking for books in sg (b4 goto amazon). Can I know if anyone knows where to get this book?
\"1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition\"
many many thanks.....
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