All About Autism

[pinkamoon]

Actually my son had self injurious behaviour too like throwing himself on the sofas ( ended up losing both front teeth before age 4), hitting his head and rubbing his head on the wall with a pillow in between. When he started to be able to communicate, I did ask him why and he said his head was painful. Just like how we will hit our head when our heads are painful. These are signs there are inflammation in the head caused by allergies and leaky gut syndrome. These behaviour stop after I implemented strict diets for a while. I took away all food that he is allergic to, remove milk and wheat and rice. He only ate vegetables (no carbohydrates) and meat and lots of marrow bone and meat soup.


As for Son-Rise program, you can read the link here. It is a DIY homebased programme. http://www.autismtreatmentcenter.org/

[Eijmum]

Thanks very much MummyOats and Pinkamoon! Greatly appreciate your help :))


Yes my son definitely has sensory issues as he tip toes a lot and likes to scratch and pinch. My hands are bruised by him when we fought last time and they are still scarred. He's non verbal and so he screams for things he wants. But all these are very much controlled now though not totally eliminated.

Pinkamoon, it's very hard to restrict his diet as he already has very limited choices of food. He takes only noodle stuff, pasta, a couple of biscuits and plain bread. He doesn't like new food.

[Eijmum]

Hi pinkamoon,


How effective is the son-rise program for your son? This is totally different from ABA but seems that it can cure autism… Can you share with me? I would like to know more. Many thanks.

[pinkamoon]

Hi! Ejimum and I have taken the sonrise topic off the forum.


Btw, how's everyone doing? It seems a bit quiet these few days. I bet many of you must have gone for a short holiday.

[Tamama]

Eijmum,

You can find sonrise program in FB support group. And google for it and you can see the difference of this and ABA.
I like this program and I heard of the founder of the program will come to sg next yr. I look forward to it.

[pinkamoon]

Hi Tamama, I heard Raun is coming to Singapore. He is the son of Bears and Samahria, the founder of Sonrise. He was the autistic boy who recovered. Happy that u practise sonrise too.

[richiegal]

Hello everybody… anyone has any good speech therapist that can introduce? My son is 26mths and is slow in speech. No words at all.

[pinkamoon]

richiegal:

Hello everybody... anyone has any good speech therapist that can introduce? My son is 26mths and is slow in speech. No words at all.

Hi! Maybe u want to try speaking more to him, talk to him when u shower him, feed him and in everything. The speech therapist I went to was not fantastic, so I cannot recommend u any. Sorry.

[fluttershy]

hi mummies & daddies,


it's been a while since i wrote here. i'm in dilemma right now. my son will turn 3 in january 2015, i planned to him on a montessori kindergarten in the afternoon. so he's still having his 3-hour ABA and the afternoon he will attend 4-hour kindergarten.

the thing is that his behaviour consultant thinks that he's not ready for a mainstream kindergarten. she thinks that to be able to attend mainstream, he needs to know how to be social with his peers, understand simple instructions (eg. stand up, sit down, come here). right now the therapists are working hard on these receptive language skills. looking at where he is now, the behaviour consultant thinks that he won't be ready to attend kindy next year. it made me so so sad that he might have to delay a year

she also stressed in to me that she's afraid that my son will develop a pattern where he will behave appropriately in the morning because it's therapy time but then he will start doing inappropriate behaviour, stimmings and all that 'bad' behaviours in the afternoon during the kindy session because let's face it, the kindy teacher will need to handle other kids as well and most probably he will be doing all sorts of thing that he wants including the bad behaviours.

so i'm really puzzled whether i let him go to N1 or delay it to prepare him better. any thoughts and opinions is totally appreciated!

[sharonkhoo]

fluttershy:

hi mummies & daddies,


it's been a while since i wrote here. i'm in dilemma right now. my son will turn 3 in january 2015, i planned to him on a montessori kindergarten in the afternoon. so he's still having his 3-hour ABA and the afternoon he will attend 4-hour kindergarten.

the thing is that his behaviour consultant thinks that he's not ready for a mainstream kindergarten. she thinks that to be able to attend mainstream, he needs to know how to be social with his peers, understand simple instructions (eg. stand up, sit down, come here). right now the therapists are working hard on these receptive language skills. looking at where he is now, the behaviour consultant thinks that he won't be ready to attend kindy next year. it made me so so sad that he might have to delay a year

she also stressed in to me that she's afraid that my son will develop a pattern where he will behave appropriately in the morning because it's therapy time but then he will start doing inappropriate behaviour, stimmings and all that 'bad' behaviours in the afternoon during the kindy session because let's face it, the kindy teacher will need to handle other kids as well and most probably he will be doing all sorts of thing that he wants including the bad behaviours.

so i'm really puzzled whether i let him go to N1 or delay it to prepare him better. any thoughts and opinions is totally appreciated!

I would opt to delay. What's the hurry? If you can give your kid more time to consolidate the desired behaviours and avoid developing undesirable habits, it's a good thing. It will make everything so much easier as he goes on up the levels. That's my opinon, anyway.