All About Autism
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Slmkhoo,
Next year my son will go rainbow.
Rainbow school bus will take my son from his school.
I duno how to explain y my son need to go rainbow
Duno can just say he go rainbow just do his upper truck physiotherapy ? Will they believe ? -
Blokus. I only can read English
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Helplessmum
What is upper truck?
Anyway, I have booked an appointment for neurofeedback. Will share more with you mummies after the session. Hope my boy can cooperate during the session. -
Yes my son very sleepy I will give him milk n drag him out of house to school already.
His nap in school usually 1-3pm. So not so bad.
Upper truck is upper body muscle not tone or develop unwell.
So they get very tired if sit very long hour or hard to climb stairs. -
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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.Double E:
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.
I was nodding my head when I read your post \"I did not even know that I still need to teach my girl the appropriate way of asking for help\". Until I brought my son to his therapy sessions and EIPIC, I never thought I need to teach him how to ask for help, point, learn to grip things with his fingers, sorting, joint attention, threading, tolerate messy play etc. I thought all these come naturally. And then it hit on me that, I cannot expect these things to come naturally for my son because he is different.
Also, I realise how important all these life skills are. For example treading, if he can't do treading, he will have problem operating a lot of things in future and if he can't tolerate messy play now, he won't be able t participate in his art classes when he goes to Pri school. And if doesn't know how to turn and twist a cap, he will have problem opening anything that is bottled next time!
That's also when I realise OT is very important. I didn't send him to OT initially as I was told is just like exercising, so I thought not necessary. Boy! I was wrong. OT is so important to his life skills learning. And I am glad I managed to find a OT who is able to work well with him and identify all the areas that he is weak at.
It is also through all these therapies that I know I should let him do things himself instead of spoon feeding him. For example, instead of me pouring milk into the cup for him, I should let him do it. And I should not be wearing shoes for him all the time, I should teach him the technique and let him try himself. And after he finished his meal, he should learn how to put the utensils away in the kitchen etc.
Helplessmum
Above are some examples of why having a professional therapist for your son is important. Because they can highlight issues to us that we don't even realise it ourselves. So when your son goes to Rainbow next year, do keep an open mind and don't be afraid to ask the therapist how your son is doing at the sessions, any issues and tips to address those problems. -
slmkhoo:
Please don't interpret what I am going to say as \"don't send your kids to therapies\", ok? I just want to say, for those who have the time and confidence, and/or don't have the money for therapies, that it's possible to DIY a lot of this. It also depends on the severity of the child's issues and how much the parent(s) can troubleshoot and learn by reading up, and a good dose of common sense. My daughter was diagnosed with Asperger's at 14yo, but we had realised by the time she was 4yo that she had some deficits especially in speech, social skills and motor skills, and were fairly sure of ASD by the time she was 6yo. For various reasons, we didn't want a diagnosis and didn't have access to therapies, so we did most things DIY fashion. Life skills that Double E mentioned like self-feeding, putting on shoes, learning to asking for help and not throw tantrums, screw caps, desensitising from sand/grass/messy stuff etc, all this we did at home. We also taught her conversation skills (still on-going at 15yo!), wrote sets of social stories at various times, practised pronunciation, practised motor skills like stair-climbing, throwing balls, strengthening fingers etc. She has been in mainstream education all this while although we have had some concessions made for her. We weren't as expert as trained therapists, but the upside was that we could practise daily and could tailor the skills for what she needed most at the time and what she was ready for. For those who do go to the experts, do remember that small daily doses will multiply the effects of any therapy. Just some thoughts.
Yes, of course, apart from sending the kid to therapy, we also need to do homework and work on the kid ourselves. What I am trying to say is, having a therapist helped me to discover things that I am not aware of or did not know in the first place. -
Hi Mashy, CMS, and Blokus, thanks for ur info and suggestions.
Helpless mum3, u need to stop thining that way. cos if u hv negative thinking, ur son can feel it. I believe ASD children have better 6th sense than us. Sometimes when I feel sad thinking of the issue, he will suddenly cry. -
double e,
what is threading?
slmkhoo, do u have to speak loudly to your daughter.
my son can messy play, he can play sand, play water, walk on grass, go seaside , go swimming pool.
wow! yr daughter in mainstream , u are marvelous…
until now my son still sleep w me, i still duno how to discipline him to sleep early & alone. -
Sigh, my son was bullied in sch today. Got kicked by classmate. Good thing a teacher saw it. And I thought my boy would be the one to cause trouble in sch. That boy is a huge prob in sch till even the principal has been involved. My heart so painful when I saw him with the huge red patch on his leg.
good thing he took it in his stride. -
Did yr son fight back ?
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