All About Autism

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Happy Snake year! May God bless our children with strength to continue improving!

[specialboymum]

Happy snake year and happy valentine day to everybody.

Yes, lets hope for our kids continuous improvement.

I have been doing some reading these few days since I'm off from work.
Found something interesting for sharing. I think it is good to have 1-2 serving of eggs per day.

http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/home/eng/cholesterol.asp

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Mummies


I am contemplating to pull my boy out of his current CC and transfer him to a church kindy. We thought a kindy is closer to a mainstream primary setting and by sending him there, we can prepare him for P1. Another reason is that with the savings, we can send him to more activities like swimming and arts lesson.

What do you all think? But I worry if he can cope well in kindy as they have a larger teacher children ratio, usually 1 teacher to about 20 kids for K1 and K2. Also, he is currently doing fine in his CC, so far no unpleasant feedback on him from the teachers.

Will you make the move if you are in my shoe? the savings can be of $800 a mth which I can use to pay for extra lessons on swimming, social behavior classes.

[mashy]

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Mummies


I am contemplating to pull my boy out of his current CC and transfer him to a church kindy. We thought a kindy is closer to a mainstream primary setting and by sending him there, we can prepare him for P1. Another reason is that with the savings, we can send him to more activities like swimming and arts lesson.

What do you all think? But I worry if he can cope well in kindy as they have a larger teacher children ratio, usually 1 teacher to about 20 kids for K1 and K2. Also, he is currently doing fine in his CC, so far no unpleasant feedback on him from the teachers.

Will you make the move if you are in my shoe? the savings can be of $800 a mth which I can use to pay for extra lessons on swimming, social behavior classes.

My son was in a kindy before moving to cc. He couldn't cope with it then because of class size and a lot of independence is needed. I think u need to talk to the church kindy to see if they can handle. Because no point transferring, then find that they can't handle him. And like u say, the class size is bigger and so lesser attention can be given to your son.

And about swimming, I sent him once but realise no point coz he wasn't paying attention. Will send him again when he is older.

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Mashy

Thanks for the feedback. Really valuable for me to consider the kindy option carefully. I didn’t expect the class size to be so big till I asked the Principal.
So for your boy, does he have difficulty transiting from CC to mainstream primary cos the class size is so different??

I am going to visit two kindy, shall see how it goes. They have vacancies for him and his younger sis. The two kindys are Fairfield Methodist Church and Kay Poh Rd Baptist Church. Anyone has any feedback on these two kindys? Not much feedback on them online.

[mashy]

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Mashy

Thanks for the feedback. Really valuable for me to consider the kindy option carefully. I didn't expect the class size to be so big till I asked the Principal.
So for your boy, does he have difficulty transiting from CC to mainstream primary cos the class size is so different??

I am going to visit two kindy, shall see how it goes. They have vacancies for him and his younger sis. The two kindys are Fairfield Methodist Church and Kay Poh Rd Baptist Church. Anyone has any feedback on these two kindys? Not much feedback on them online.

Not really I feel. The problems he had were the ones we foresee and not because he was from cc. I'm not expecting him to be independent coz we already know that he still couldn't at that point in time. Which was also why we let the teacher know of his condition to get extra help.

My friend taught in Kay Poh Road kindy before. Now she's in a cc. Think last time they were unhappy with the P. Not sure if its still the same P or not since its been a few years. The ones I knew who attended that kindy are already teenagers or working at least already. Kekeke.

[helplessmum3]

Rainbow has swimming once a week for my son

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Hi all


I’ve been reading this thread for quite some time. My son is in k1 and is diagnosed with pddnos aka high functioning asd. He studies at PCF and goes for therapy twice a week since the start of this year.But the teachers are not special needs trained and cannot handle his misbehavior. The principal requested that he studies for two out of four hours which i feel it’s meaningless for my son. I intend to withdraw him from pcf and I’m sending him to an ICCP half day child care next month. Still big class of 20 students inclusive of my son and a speech delay boy. They have an aunty to help look after that boy currently.

I hope the special needs trained teacher can handle my son as I think he’s ADHD cum ASD. Have u mummies heard of cases where even the trained teacher also cannot cope and ask the child to withdraw?

[mashy]

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Hi all


I've been reading this thread for quite some time. My son is in k1 and is diagnosed with pddnos aka high functioning asd. He studies at PCF and goes for therapy twice a week since the start of this year.But the teachers are not special needs trained and cannot handle his misbehavior. The principal requested that he studies for two out of four hours. I'm sending him to an ICCP half day child care next month. Still big class of 20 students inclusive of my son and a speech delay boy. They have an aunty to help look after that boy currently.

I hope the special needs trained teacher can handle my son as I think he's ADHD cum ASD. Have u mummies heard of cases where even the trained teacher also cannot cope and ask the child to withdraw?

Well, pddnos isn't high functioning autism. It didn't fulfil all the criterias for autism and thus it's labelled as pddnos. High functioning autism fulfills all criterias and with a average to above average IQ.

IMO, a big class is never good for our kids. They need more attention and help in many ways. Even with a special needs trained teacher, there's only so much she can do when she also has to handle the rest of the 19 children. This is ESP so when they are still young. Btw, I'm not pro PCF type. I find that their classes are too big. They are ok for normal developing children with above average IQ. Those with special needs or slower development will lose out there.

I support your decision to change school because, when the principal says to attend only half the session, then it shows that they aren't committed to helping your child. My boy had a principal who wanted to demote him. Luckily I changed his school and altho he still didn't behave perfectly (as expected), he managed to thrive in that environment. We still keep in contact with one of his classmate and he looks forward to seeing her all the time. He even asked me to arrange for play dates with her.

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Thank you mashy. I agree with you too that a class of 20 is also tough for a special needs trained teacher. Actually I’m at my wits end. I wanted my son to go to a mainstream kindergarten but other than this ICCP child care centre, I have no idea which other schools will accept him. I’m staying in the north and a sahm. Hence my finance is very tight too.