All About Autism

[nugget]

Double E,


I think children encyclopedia might be too much to absorb? Its more like general knowledge questions. They also noted the speed you answer the questions. Those questions I post to my 3 year old, he can answer all leh.

Yes, my son hates animals and she kept asking animals questions. Haha. He didnt answer the cow gives milk question cos he don’t care.

[nugget]

braverymom:

Nugget, thanks for such a detail sharing. You are so generous!

Braverymon,

:oops: Its still fresh in my mind so I share. Ask me next week i sure forget everything. Haha.

[Nebbermind]

nugget:

Double E,


I think children encyclopedia might be too much to absorb? Its more like general knowledge questions. They also noted the speed you answer the questions. Those questions I post to my 3 year old, he can answer all leh.

Yes, my son hates animals and she kept asking animals questions. Haha. He didnt answer the cow gives milk question cos he don't care.

But isn't the intention is to have an honest assessment of your child?
Why would one wanna mug for this? :scratchhead:

[nugget]

ImMeeMee,


Pathlight will have a open house in May. Think I should attend one of the open house and see how it is like, learn how is their environment different. So prep my son's mainstream primary school on how to help him.

Your dd screening wont start until end June. Good luck to you!
http://www.pathlight.org.sg/admissions/application.php

[sharonkhoo]

Double E:

Nugget

Do you think it helps to get a children encyclopedia book? Haha.
I actually think it is as the areas that they test on is so wide.

Just read widely, talk a lot, point out things as you move around. The things tested should be 'general knowledge' for that age of kid. If you intentionally study or prepare, you will not get a true assessment, and since you are paying good money, I think you owe it to yourself and your child to get a true assessment.

[nugget]

Nebbermind:

nugget:

Double E,


I think children encyclopedia might be too much to absorb? Its more like general knowledge questions. They also noted the speed you answer the questions. Those questions I post to my 3 year old, he can answer all leh.

Yes, my son hates animals and she kept asking animals questions. Haha. He didnt answer the cow gives milk question cos he don't care.

But isn't the intention is to have an honest assessment of your child?
Why would one wanna mug for this? :scratchhead:

How truthful and reliable IQ test is , I really don't know. Does that mean if you score super high marks means you are a gifted???
Some people might totally not be interested in animals but very good in maths or music can be considered gifted as well.

IQ test conducted is just a gauge roughly where the IQ is. I am sure if they don't ask any questions on animals, my son will definitely score better. But I am happy despite not answer all answers correctly, his IQ still average. At least he is not intellectually handicapped.

I think the preparation is more of exposing the kids to different things, which areas etc. Not really mugging the test. No one is born with knowledge, everything need be taught, purposeful or incidental learning.

Last time I didn't know I need to talk to a baby when I am alone with him. Cos being a first time mum that time, I feel its so weird to talk to a baby who doesn't understand anything at all.Later stage then I know its important cos baby learn by listening, then slowly they try to mimick.. etc. If we don't teach, they wont learn.

[nugget]

slmkhoo:

Double E:

Nugget

Do you think it helps to get a children encyclopedia book? Haha.
I actually think it is as the areas that they test on is so wide.

Just read widely, talk a lot, point out things as you move around. The things tested should be 'general knowledge' for that age of kid. If you intentionally study or prepare, you will not get a true assessment, and since you are paying good money, I think you owe it to yourself and your child to get a true assessment.

slmkhoo,

I agreed with you. I am guilty of not talking, explaning and pointing as we go out etc.. Cos I think I am also an introvert by nature. Sigh..

But I am happy cos I think my assessment is pretty true cos I don't have time to prep my boy at all.

[ImMeeMee]

one thing that I have learnt through my ASD doter is that actually the things expected of them are pretty much the same as that for NT kids. If you look at the numerous enrichment books and assessment books for pre-schoolers, you will notice that the topics are very much similar. For literacy - myself, my family, my emotions, animals, places, occupations, etc, and for numeracy - patterns, comparison like bigger/smaller, more/less, knowing the numbers and words 1-10 etc.


So if at all, preparation is along these lines cos this seems the basics of what is required at that milestone. Professionals advise that there is no need to mug to create a negative baseline, but we should point out things to the ASD child as much as possible along the above lines for literacy and numeracy, cos what is obvious and natural to NT kids in learning the above stuff may not be as intuitive to the ASD child at all. What is inferential learning for NT kids is also not present in the systems of ASD children, so this guiding is necessary.

Hope I am not being defensive, but I do find that there are flaws in our current system when it comes to assessing the cognitive capability of the child, like what nugget says, if the child is not interested in animals, then he/she may be disadvantaged though the child may be strong in certain areas. So my advice based on my personal experience is that while mugging is not required, no harm getting the child exposed to literacy and numeracy 6 to even 12 months ahead of the assessment.

[ImMeeMee]

nugget:

ImMeeMee,


Pathlight will have a open house in May. Think I should attend one of the open house and see how it is like, learn how is their environment different. So prep my son's mainstream primary school on how to help him.

Your dd screening wont start until end June. Good luck to you!
http://www.pathlight.org.sg/admissions/application.php

Thanks! Starting end June but will be ongoing for the whole of the second half of the year. So biting nail while waiting.

PL open house is pretty much an introduction to their school environment, teaching philosophies etc. But it may not provide a lot of prepping tips for mainstream school. Just giving a heads-up in case you cant find what you are looking for at the open house. Nonetheless, its a good trip to have a feel of the environment that supports ASD kids.

[sharonkhoo]

ImMeeMee:

Hope I am not being defensive, but I do find that there are flaws in our current system when it comes to assessing the cognitive capability of the child, like what nugget says, if the child is not interested in animals, then he/she may be disadvantaged though the child may be strong in certain areas. So my advice based on my personal experience is that while mugging is not required, no harm getting the child exposed to literacy and numeracy 6 to even 12 months ahead of the assessment.

That's something every test taker has to live with, and there will be NT kids who aren't interested in animals too. There should be a good spread of questions on a variety of topics in the rest of the test. Exposing the child to knowledge of various types should be a given for any child, ASD or NT, so I don't see that there is a need to do anything special for an ASD child vs an NT child. Except for the areas where my ASD child needed extra help due to her deficits, she absorbed other info in the same way as my NT child. Another thing to note is that while it can be tempting to advance a child mainly in his areas of strength, there is still a core of general knowledge that he should know just so that he is not too narrow.