All About Autism

[phtthp]

ImMeeMee:

http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2006/files/pr20060619-annex-a.pdf


would like to check when the above list is dated.
The current MOE website states that all primary schools come with allied educators for learning and behaviour support for mild special educational needs.

http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/programmes/support-for-children-special-needs/

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27841
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[sweetbaby]

ImMeeMee


Thx u for your response. We’re currently overseas right now. He’ll be attending P1 in Spore in 2014. We’ve a few schools in mind but the registration can rather be uncertain, we wont know which school will end up in. Currently Ds is in an inclusive classroom, the county provides Sped teacher one to one. Though he’s expected to be able to adjust well, I’m afraid the all the moving and new environment will be unsettling. From what I manage to gather, the primary school does not help to coordinate/recommend other services/therapies needed by the child? I’ll try to read through the pages on this thread. Its good to know there’s great support. Please share your child’s first day in school/ first experience with AED LBS.

[sharonkhoo]

sweetbaby:

ImMeeMee


Thx u for your response. We're currently overseas right now. He'll be attending P1 in Spore in 2014. We've a few schools in mind but the registration can rather be uncertain, we wont know which school will end up in. Currently Ds is in an inclusive classroom, the county provides Sped teacher one to one. Though he's expected to be able to adjust well, I'm afraid the all the moving and new environment will be unsettling. From what I manage to gather, the primary school does not help to coordinate/recommend other services/therapies needed by the child? I'll try to read through the pages on this thread. Its good to know there's great support. Please share your child's first day in school/ first experience with AED LBS.

When are you planning to return to Singapore? You are right to expect that all the moving and changes may be unsettling. How does your child cope with change? If he is the kind who needs time, then try to come back earlier so he can adjust to the new home, new environment and Singapore in general before he has to adjust to a new school. I have a Asperger's girl and have lived overseas most of her life (she's 16yo), moving and changing locations and schools quite a few times, so I know how tough it can be.

[wamin]

Hi,


Glad to see there are other parents who are here to lend helping hand.

I have 2 kids of my own, my son 4 years is autistic and 3 year old daughter (she is also have similar problem as my son but doctor say girls cannot be autistic so not sure what categories she fall under). Both of them are non-verbal, my daughter can speak some words (only at her own will) but my son is very quiet. He will babbles at times but no words at all.
Both of them are attending EPIC and we have seen a lot of improvement since they join this program. They are attending normal childcare since 2 years + but their childcare have already asked us to look somewhere else now as they said it is getting difficult for them to concentrate on special need kids and need to give more time to other kids and also they have enquiry for admission, as usual it is easier for them to take care of normal need kids than special need one (there are only 2 special need kids in that childcare and both are mine :)).
Both of my kids are very mild never scream, never fight, never bite and do their own stuff (they do play with me or only favorite teachers but not with other kids). Sometime back we contacted CEL to give us list of childcare who accept special need kids and we got a list of 5 schools in west. We got very bad experience visiting those childcare.
1- First childcare told us they have stop taking special need kids as their teacher resign.
2- Second childcare told us they can only accept 2-3 hours a day and 2-3 days a week.
3- Same problem as second one (also ask us if possible move to US/Australia as they have better network for special need kids :().
4- This childcare told us they are ok to take kids but if they got injured while attending childcare they would not be responsible. How I can leave my kids to someone when I have to be fear that if they are safe there .
5- Last childcare we visited, they put us in waiting list but after a few weeks we received call that they have no more seats available.
My wife found there is a new childcare opening very near to our home so we tried our luck there and teachers seems very cooperative and told us we can enroll our kids there and they will try their best to accommodate our kids need there as there will be not many kids in initial stage (I am keeping my fingers crossed).
We did tried sending our son to private therapies for speech and OT (when he was very young) but it was just expensive each session for 150-180$ and was very draining financially, so at end both of my kids are in EPIC. I love EPIC program but their OT/Speech therapy is only once or max twice a month.
Is there any childcare in west which is catered towards special need kids? At one time I was thinking to open my own childcare but it is not that easy.

[nugget]

Hi wamin,


First time see a daddy here.

Can I ask if you and your wife both have relatives who are ASD? I think you are the first one who is having who both kids are having special needs.

Why does your doctor say girls cannot be ASD? There are girls diagnose with ASD.

I don’t live in the West, the THK EIPIC Centre does conduct 5x lessons per week. But then its only 2-3 hours like you mention.

Opening childcare is not easy, my friend tried before and all your customers are those parents who are very anxious about their children.

[nugget]

I have 2 questions:


1. Toileting issues - he is still having problems going to toilet in school. Not too sure why he doesn’t want to go on his own and keep staining his pants. Yesterday was worse, he just soiled and poo in his underwear. At home he can go toilet on his own, sit down and wipe clean himself.

I am really running out of ideas of why he doesnt want to go when he has to go in school.

2. How do you all teach english grammar? His concept of She-Her, He-Him, I-My, You-your, We-Our, They-Their. He doesnt really want to think through and give answer. Really dunno how to teach. Is pronoun hard for them?

[Double E]

Wamin

Girls can also be diagnosed with ASD. We have mummies here with their daughters diagnosed. Rather strange for your doctor to say that. Boys have higher chance than girls to be diagnosed but it doesn’t mean girls will not have ASD.

Any reason why your current childcare can’t take care of your kids anymore? if both your kids are mild and doesn’t disturb others or disrupt the class, it should be ok.

And you should feedback your experience with the 5 childcares to CEL. CEL should know that the childcare centres in their recommended list are not helpful at all. If they are CEL’s appointed/recommended childcare centres, they shouldn’t have said all those things to you. They must be prepared to accept special needs kids before putting themselves in CEL’s recommended list.

I am not sure which childcare centres in the west caters to special needs child, but you can try kindys such as Kids4Kids and St Gerard. Their curriculum includes OT and ST. I heard good reviews although there are some mummies who didn’t think well of them. Ultimately, it depends on individual, what is good to you may not be good to others. Just try, no harm.

Nugget
My son also has problems with pronouns like You and I, yours and mine. I also don’t know how to teach except to correct him each time he made a mistake.

[ImMeeMee]

phtthp:

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27841

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phtthp

Thanks for information.

At least one thing that we could utilize the list for, is to take it as a reference for schools with strong ASD support. If these schools are already with ASD support back then before the change in policy, likely that they would have more experience on the ground in managing the kids and their issues.

[ImMeeMee]

wamin


I have a daughter who is diagosed with ASD. She is 6 yo this year.

Hope your quest at the newly opened mainstream childcare center is successful. Just keep trying if things dont turn out right. I took about a year to look for the right mainstream cc for my doter, and now that I have found the right fit, I feel its really worth the efforts. I am not based west though so I dont have contacts to share with you.

Another thing to try for OT and SLT is to get into KKH rehab. The sessions are about once a month, but it would still serve some form of support in addition to EIPIC program. Subsidized rates are at about $40 per hour.

[ImMeeMee]

nugget


My doter’s IEP started with just he-his and she-her. Imagine this IEP goal for 6 months and I used to scratch my head on why the goal is so simplistic. The EIPIC team took pains to go through with her during her weekly SLT using picture cards on just these two promouns until now where she is quite stable when using them.

Somehow the rest just starts to fall in place. Her usage of ‘I’, ‘my’ is getting better, though sometimes she still confuses with ‘you’ and ‘yours’. So I think one possible way is to stay focused on one or two promouns first. ‘I’ seems a tougher battle so maybe you want to keep it later.