All About Autism

[nugget]

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.

I see, maybe i teach one pronoun at a time. Just got to keep trying.

The singular and plural tense also hard to teach. Singlular must add \"s\" (reads, eats), plural no \"s\" (read, eat) whereas in nouns singular no \"s\" (girl, flower) vs plural is with \"s\" (girls , flowers).

Oh man... really confusing for them. Sigh..

[mashy]

nugget:

mashy:

1. Have u asked him why? I think some ASD kids are obsessive with cleanliness and may find outside toilets dirty.

2. Sorry, I also dunno how to teach. Because my boy loves to read and he is a visual learner, I let his obsession do the job. So somehow along the way, he started using pronouns instead of names. Eg, can you help me instead of \"can Mummy help x?\" And we also consciously change our speech so that he gets used to pronouns instead of ensuring that he understood us.

Mashy, I asked him he dun want to say. I think maybe he wants attention in his CC and teachers paid him none?
But there was once he did poo in school toilet and he say proudly to me \"I went to toilet in school today\".

Haha, maybe play until forget?

[nugget]

mashy:

Haha, maybe play until forget?

Haha dunno. But he knows I will cane him if he soil in school. Cos the teachers will need to throw away his underwear and they will tell me (they are nice not to complain).

Yesterday he was so scare of coming into the house, asked my MIL who was around if mummy has gone shower, if not, he dare not come in. He was afraid I am waiting for him with a cane.

In a way I was happy he is afraid and still can ask if I am in the bathroom for shower already or not At least the awareness is there.

[mashy]

nugget:

mashy:

Haha, maybe play until forget?

Haha dunno. But he knows I will cane him if he soil in school. Cos the teachers will need to throw away his underwear and they will tell me (they are nice not to complain).

Yesterday he was so scare of coming into the house, asked my MIL who was around if mummy has gone shower, if not, he dare not come in. He was afraid I am waiting for him with a cane.

In a way I was happy he is afraid and still can ask if I am in the bathroom for shower already or not At least the awareness is there.

I think during preschool years, it's common for them to play until they forget and soiled their pants. Happens to NT kids too. At least he understood that he should go to the toilet.

[Blokus]

Nugget


My son had problems with you & I. I taught him that to use ‘I’ when he is talking about ‘xx’ (where xx is is name), referring him as a 3rd person and I took his hand & pointed at himself. I explained instead of saying ‘Xx wants this’ I taught him to say ‘I want this’. Each time he gets it wrong, I corrected him and make him repeat. I did this till he eventually got it right. I Think it helped to say that ‘I’ means ‘xx’.

For ‘you’, I told him ‘you’ is mommy (When he’s talking to me). I then play out other scenarios like if he’s talking to daddy, the ‘you’
= daddy and so on.

Is this a common issue even with NT kids? My niece who is NT used to refer to herself using her name instead of ‘I’, like a 3rd person.

[Lavina]

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.

So should we send our child to schools which had/have more special needs children (but less resources per child) or less special needs children (but less experience teachers)?
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[nugget]

Lavina:

So should we send our child to schools which had/have more special needs children (but less resources per child) or less special needs children (but less experience teachers)?
:?

I will do woth more special needs but less resource. Then I will try to feed back to say there is not enough resources then MOE will add AEDs.

There are some schools with more than 1 AED LBS.

If you put your kid into a school with less experience AED LBS, then he/she might not be able to help your child effectively or worse, he/she resign.

But then, how do u determine how many special needs are there in a school? You know a way to tell?

[Lavina]

I think if we ask, the school will reveal how many existing special needs students they have. Of course they won’t know how many coming in next P1.


During my time, I had a meeting with the P. He said his school had 1 autistic student (already P4) and he was very sympathetic. Agreed to put my child with a firm & willing teacher who would follow him P1 & P2.

[mashy]

nugget:

Lavina:

So should we send our child to schools which had/have more special needs children (but less resources per child) or less special needs children (but less experience teachers)?
:?

I will do woth more special needs but less resource. Then I will try to feed back to say there is not enough resources then MOE will add AEDs.

There are some schools with more than 1 AED LBS.

If you put your kid into a school with less experience AED LBS, then he/she might not be able to help your child effectively or worse, he/she resign.

But then, how do u determine how many special needs are there in a school? You know a way to tell?

Teachers are more or less fixed but the no of special needs kids changes every year. So I will go for more special needs teachers.

[wamin]

Thank you all for your reply. I was working and now when I checked there were quite a few reply.

Nugget yes trying to be hands on daddy. I work from home so I do fetching dropping job before I start my work . And my daughter and son both a very attached with me specially my daughter, she even don’t let me do work at mid night if I don’t allow her to sleep in same room where I work  and she is only 3 o_O. About school I always see the special need kids are always neglected one here, one day whenever I had enough resources I will do something for these kids. Toilet training also going to be a big issue here , once we try training our son for toilet training he only pee when we bring him in living room and don’t pee when bring him to toilet . Now we are going to start again in June holiday.
Double E, when we were looking for our first childcare, current childcare told us they have special need trained teacher and they can help us but recently she said she is having difficult time because more kids are in class and my son will not sit for sessions (each session is like 20-30 minutes long). So their request was either provide then help (domestic helper tag along) or look for another childcare. And their specific requirement was to provide Pilipino DH because teacher in-charge was Pilipino  and we have Indonesian Domestic helper and don’t want to hire another helper). But end-up they told us to find another childcare and it would be easier (don’t seems easier for us, because both of my kids like going to that childcare. But it is not our choice). Regarding CEL, at first the person from CEL never gave us list and just ask us to choose random name from list which he was mentioning on phone, lucky my wife ask about school address so that we can drop by and get more information before giving school name.