All About Autism

[sharonkhoo]

Great and encouraging story. Yes, step by step is the way to go. All the best to your daughter in the years ahead!

[O_O_Dad]

Beautiful story u have shared . Your story brings light to others in the dark. Thank you!

[O_O_Dad]

Beautiful story u have shared . Your story brings light to others in the dark. Thank you!

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Hi all
It has been a long time since I posted in this thread.
My eldest daughter, who has high functioning autism is now in secondary 2 .
She has been diagnosed since she was 5 yrs old.
She went through therapies at KKH since 5 yrs old, Now she is still seeing the doctor at KKH for her yearly review.
She is in main stream primary n secondary school, given great support from her school teachers and allied educator.
She went to normal academic stream, following her PSLE results release 2 yrs back.
But I am glad to say that she is now doing well in her stream, was granted opportunities to take express courses for maths n science, but she wanted to take things slow at her pace, so she rejected the opportunities.
I am very proud to say that , her secondary 2 Maths exam results was released yesterday and she scored 94 , the highest in her class!!!
I was super super happy and excited !
We were holding hands and jumping with joy when she told me her results!
She told me how her friends were cheering for her when the teacher announced to the class the highest score.I can see the joy and pride in her eyes.
It was a long and ardous journey through her academic years, with ups and downs.
It was a scary journey for both of us.
I have to let go of my fears, letting her go to her school camp, girl guides camp in secondary school.
But I witnessed how she over come her fears.
She even did her job as a tour guide at Garden by the Bay for her Girl guide duties!
I was very devastated when she was diagnosed with autism many years back.
But I told myself, if I were to give up, who is going to help her?
Step by step , slow and steady I kept reminding myself.
Every step taken by her is a mile stone.

I wish to tell all here, there is really light at the end of the tunnel.
Even though my daughter will sure encounter setbacks through out her academic years, and even when she goes to polytechnic et cin future, or to work.
But we will all get through this together! 😊

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[Prawny]

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Hi everyone. My Son is 21 months now and we noticed some red flag for autism. We are just wondering if we should be worry? As his mum I am very worry and kind of getting paranoid on this as there’s no answer whether he is having ASD or not. We have been to child development unit the Pediatrician who access him told us it’s too early to tell if he has ASD and currently we are seeing a speech therapist for his speech delay... twice a month. We use to let him watch youtube on tv with phonics and nursery rhythm Everyday (approx 8hrs) But recently we had stop and reduce to less than 1 hr a day. He also goes to childcare from 9am to 5pm on mon to fri since July 2018.

Things he doesn’t do which is red flag for autism:
1) don’t call us papa or mama. Speech delay, know less than 3 words.
2) he doesn’t point at things he wants.
3) he doesn’t react to us when his name was called most of the time.
4) haven’t seen him play with other children before but occasionally will go and touch them.

Things he does:
1) love playing peekaboo and will follow by using his hand to cover his face
2) he wave goodbye occasionally when he want to
3) he will bring toys to us or anything that he need help with.
4) he able to clap when we sing “if you happy and you know you clap your hand”
5) he also gave eye contact.
6) he likes to hold on to his fav car on one of his hand. But can do without it if we hide it.
7) he point at alphabet or numbers or fruits on poster pasted at home or animals/pictures in story books.
knows how to say “mum mum = food” and understand mum mum is food.
9) flapping arms at random time. Notice he flap a lot when we bring him down to playground.

I really hope anyone can share your exp with me. I have been reading up online and seeing video about ASD. Sorry for the Long post. Thanks!

Hi Parents,

I am back. The journey hasn't been easy as we still do not have any assessment outcome from the specialist at CDU, we are living with anxiety every day.
My DS is 34 months now. We definitely seen a lot of improvement in him after trying what we learn from the ST and execute at home as much as we can.

Things he does not do last time he does now:
- like calling us mummy, daddy, even grandparents and my sisters to other people he sees often and remember their name and would call them when he sees them.
- Point to everything he sees now and tell (i.e “Oh cat, I see cement truck”)
- Wave goodbye to people when he knows he is leaving the place or when the person left.
- Will go to neighbour house and shout for the children name and look for them.
- Able to tell us what he wants or when he is angry (i.e I want biscuit, I want drink water, etc, I angry.)
- if we take his fav things he will say “my car, my …..” and will answer yes or no when asked about something.
- can read A to Z, count 1 to 30, name animals, colours, able to read some words etc.

However recently we started to notice he is unable to contain his emotions if we don’t follow/give things his way.
He will throw tantrum shouting and crying. He also doesn’t answer our question like “What have you done in sch today?”
Sometimes he just repeat the qns we ask.

So recently we met up with his school principal to understand more about his progress:
-\tVery smart boy, can read and name a lot of things, even K1 student is still struggling with.
-\tWill participate in class if he is very interested in the topic
-\tAble to understand what the teachers instruct but when they ask him question he dosen’t reply or will repeat what they ask sometimes.
-\tBad temper, impatient always want to be the first to get things, having him wait will lead to shouting and crying
-\tShort attention span in class, can sit down and pay attention for 15mins after that will walk around.
-\tDoesn’t play pretend with his friends in school, he will sit with them but he just play his own toys.
-\tStill don’t understand what is friends or have preference to who he wants to play with.
-\tThey are concern about his social interaction.

The principal suggest we observe him until 4 YO, if still no improvement then send him to EIPIC. As she has seen children like him but bloom into very talkative kid after that.
But I feel too late to wait until 4 YO leh and worried after hearing what she feedback yesterday. I went to google and found this Hyperlexia (very similar to my son)..end up worry until cannot sleep whole night haha.

Any recommendation what to do next? Continue CDU or seek private?
I went to check private consultation so expensive S$380/Hr. hope to hear from you all~!
thanks!

[TheTeds]

From your description, I don’t see anything wrong with your child. He is still very young and not being to control his emotion is nothing unusual. You may see some kids of his age behaving much better, speak much better, I understand your worries. I’ve been through that with my son when he is 3+. But after he turns 4, we saw big improvements and he is just like any normal child (in fact, even better behaved) and a fantastic debater . Somehow some kids just develop a bit later. But everything should level out before u notice it. Don’t lose sleep, your child should be fine


As for hyperlexia, version 1 & 3 are extremely rare. Type 2 is worrisome but it’s not common too. My second child is diagnosed as hyperlexia 3. She is a self taught reader who teaches herself to read. She reads all her letters and 1-10 by 10 months, reading out all words (including hard to pronounce Brands) in supermarkets by 14 months. Soon, she started to read in sentences before 18 months. She is able to comprehend story books she is reading, she speaks her first word at 6-7 months BUT she started to form sentences at 5 years only! She is neurotypical - she is never able to form even 2 word sentence at 3-4 years old but when she speaks in sentences at 5, they are at least 7 words in each sentence.

In terms of behaviour, she exhibited some autistic like behaviour which also made me suspect she could be autistic. Although she doesn’t line up toys and has good eye contact, her tantrums ( when she didn’t get what she wants) and unable to wait in line really made me scare. As kids with hyperlexia 3, these fade away as time goes by

[Prawny]

Hi TheTeds,


Thanks for your sharing, after reading your comment I feel so much better. I do hope my son is slow just like your boy.
Just yesterday I let him do colouring of a Bat picture and he written “BAT” on the paper (tho not very clear). I were both happy and worried haha.
I had spoken to a ABA Therapist over the phone yesterday, she told me that children who is able to read and write at young age is very gifted!
And from what I share with her, she also feel that my son isn’t on the ASD side but of cause I want to give the a benefit of doubt to get him to go thru the assessment in case if he really face issue to socialise and communicate.
Your daughter is very smart and gifted, I hope she has already outgrow this phase. My son does not line up toys too but same as your daughter he is unable to wait and very bad tantrums. Does she communicate with you all now?

[sharonkhoo]

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My son does not line up toys too but same as your daughter he is unable to wait and very bad tantrums.

A 3yo throwing tantrums is very normal. Have you compared his tantrums to other kids around his age? You may find that he is quite normal. Also, if some of his caregivers have a tendency to cave in eventually when he throws tantrums, his tantrums are likely to get worse as he realises that is a good method to get his way. You could investigate and see if firmer control of tantrums might make them less bad.

[Darren_Sim]

Hi Dear Parents,

My boy is following up with his play therapist (Dr Alicia) & she informed us that he is having GDD issue.
She recommended to us that our boy to attend EIPIC class.
Do any of your child is attending SBCC Child Development Center at Novena Medical Center?
Any review about this center?
Also, any of your child is attending AWWA Fernvale center?
Any review about t his center?
Thanks in advance.

Darren