All About Autism
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Hi Appleworm,
Which part of North are you at? Can you be more specific or else abit hard to help you leh. Anyway you can visit this website - http://www.pcs.org.sg -
he is already on OT now but I feel that the teachers are not patient enough on him… sigh… I am looking for schools in Yishun, sembawang, yck, admiralty…
any good schools who may support them?
I call Presbyterian, car corner who supports ICCP but they are all full…
he is basically not really listening to instructions when given, he will wander off in classroom to find things that interest him.
pull the toys on the floor and cheekily smile at the teacher when he does that (I take it as mischievous)
what do you also do when your kids gets over-obsessed with looking at fans /moving lights? I am trying to find one that is fully conditioned so that he doesn’t gets distracted by the fans… -
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Anyone send their high functioning autistic child to eipic centre ? Can you share if the Eipic centre did help your child to improve .thank you -
Appleworm:
Appleworm, you have PM.he is already on OT now but I feel that the teachers are not patient enough on him.. sigh.. I am looking for schools in Yishun, sembawang, yck, admiralty..
any good schools who may support them?
I call Presbyterian, car corner who supports ICCP but they are all full...
he is basically not really listening to instructions when given, he will wander off in classroom to find things that interest him.
pull the toys on the floor and cheekily smile at the teacher when he does that (I take it as mischievous)
what do you also do when your kids gets over-obsessed with looking at fans /moving lights? I am trying to find one that is fully conditioned so that he doesn't gets distracted by the fans...
As for spinning lights and fans, my doter was obsessed with these things were she was young. I think it may not be viable to avoid them altogether since they are everywhere.
They are into spinning objects and light as these provide some form of sensory inputs and some children may find comfort in these things. Professionals coach that the way to 'wean' them off is to engage them, pull them out of their own world and into an interactive world with us. That is where all the therapy will come into place. At least, that was what I was taught.
Now my doter still looks at blinking lights. But over the years, she has been taught and accepts that she cannot look at them all the time. Sometimes when we pass by shops with blinking lights, she will pause to look at them. I will then tell her that we will look at them for a short while and then we have to move on. She accepts this and after my prompt a while later, she will move off with us. At times I also accept that this is her, and she needs her 'time-out' to look at blinking lights. So I do let her look at them within acceptable limits. -
Hi Appleworm,
The obsession with moving fans is just part of their condition. With consistent OT to improve their sensory regulation, it will get better or your child will redirect his repetitive behavior to something more socially acceptable. -
Hi Snow24,
Ok, let me share what my psychologist said about eipic (both private and govt). She personally feel that if the child is cognitively able, has a reasonably ok level of joint attention and doesn’t have much behavioural issues, then there isn’t a need to go for eipic, rather the child should go for mainstream pre-school and supplement with other therapies like OT/ST/Sped/Social class etc.
But financially it is really expensive to go for 1-to-1 private therapies so eipic is a more economic option as it also offer OT/ST/Sped in a classroom setting.
Perhaps you want to discuss the eipic issue with your paychologist to make a better decision? If you need, I can recommend mine to you also. -
Is there any good social skill classes around that you all can share with?
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Hi Optrex80,
My son is attending social class at Leapfrogs. -
he is already on OT now but I feel that the teachers are not patient enough on him… sigh… I am looking for schools in Yishun, sembawang, yck, admiralty…
any good schools who may support them?
I call Presbyterian, car corner who supports ICCP but they are all full…
he is basically not really listening to instructions when given, he will wander off in classroom to find things that interest him.
pull the toys on the floor and cheekily smile at the teacher when he does that (I take it as mischievous)
what do you also do when your kids gets over-obsessed with looking at fans /moving lights? I am trying to find one that is fully conditioned so that he doesn’t gets distracted by the fans…
Hi Appleworm,
I would like to understand your son a little more.
* Does he respond well in terms of eye contact with people when communicating?
* How is his command of language by his given age (note that boys may be little slower in language development)?
* Does he mumble or sings to himself?
Vroom -
His eye contact is getting better, eg, when we call him he looks at us. don't really request us for things but if he wants something he pulls our hand to take it for him...
he can sing songs (eg. twinkle little star, 123 song etc)
he sings which means he can actually put words together but doesn't really talk and communicate with us.. until I recently force him to learn and say \"give me\" which finally he did...
now we have a placement in rainbow school but his dad is contemplating cos he feels that he is not \"so serious\" and with pte therapy he wil slowly grow out of it...
however I tink I will still proceed with the enrolment.
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