All About Autism

[tyeogh]

slmkhoo:

4 different ones! I only have 2 and I am already feeling dizzy

ImMeeMee:

I have 3 and already up to my neck, faintz if there are more ... :yikes:

I kenna conned. They look so cute and innocent when they were babies. So I ordered more. Now they turned out to be monsters!!

[Couragemom]

Hi tyeogh,


Gosh, I loved to be ‘conned’ again and give bring to #3 but I really don’t have the courage to do so even though I love children (monsters included).

By the way I can’t really comment on eipic for Snow24 as my son doesn’t attend any and I am the ‘naughty’ mother whom decided that my son doesn’t need it but do ala-carte 1-to-1 therapies instead, so cannot fill in the blank.

[Couragemom]

Hi Snow24,


How old is your son? Usually the tolerance towards non-conforming classroom behavior get lesser and lesser as the child grows older.

IMHO, these non-conforming classroom behavior have to be addressed. How? Through therapies or eipic. What are your worries holding you back from applying for eipic?

There are few options - one will be to change to a pre-school that accepts special needs child and go for private therapies such as ABA, sped classes, OT and ST.

Second option is to go eipic and continue to attend your current pre-school.

Third option is to do all three. Eipic, mainstream pre-school and private therapies.

You need to work out the logistics (fetching back and fro) and the finance. Some Govt eipic also expect parents to accompany the child for a period of time initially so you need to ask. Whatever decision you made in the end will be the best one based on the current situation and you know your son best.

[Snow24]

Hi couragemom


My son is 4.5 years old.

My son childcare centre will only allowed him to continue half day session if they know he is attending eipic.Even though we need full day childcare service.That’ the reality.

I also not sure if eipic can really help him to improve his behaviour (wander around d classroom, lying on the floor etc)

[Appleworm]

Hi Snow


How long has ur kid attended epic? Which school and has he improved?
Im wondering if epic will help him.
How do u manage the travelling betwen epic and cc?
What are also your concerns on his behaviour? Rolling on the floor? Etc?

Sorry for so many questions. Jus like to ask u for more advice on ur experience on what to expect. I m enrolling him to rainbow nxt year…

[Double E]

Hi all

I have good news to share. Last fri, my 5year old can finally swim without a float and using breast stroke! I have waited for this day till neck long long, after 1 year and 2 swim coaches, he finally can swim independently, even is just for a short distance, I am contented.

[Double E]

tyeogh:

Snow24:

Hi couragemum


Thanks for sharing.
Cognitively my son is able and OK.

But he likes to lean on his teachers, lie on the floor or wander to the front of the whiteboard i not sure is these still considered as joint attention OK and not much behaviour issues.

To the mainstream sch such behaviour is not acceptable.

Would eipic help him in the above areas he has issues or not really.

Hey Snow24,
I remember in the first 2 months of my son's eipic, his teacher made sitting down on a chair in front of a table a goal. I was sceptical. Is this what eipic is all about? Why pay so much for such simple things? Shouldnt the teachers work on \"curing\" him? You may be asking the same questions.

I found my answers later. Eipic breaks down what we view as simple daily tasks into smaller bite size titbits for our special kids to consume. It is precisely because they cannot perform such simple tasks eg sitting down, or in your case, don't wander around, that is why they need help.

It took my son 2 months to learn to sit down in front of a table. What they did was to also in effect train his compliance. He had to learn to comply to given instructions. Sit down then you can play with the toys on the table.

With compliance, then ST will work. He has to talk in order to get what he wants. Then, he has to look us in the eyes to talk before he gets what he wants.

It is a long painful process of breaking down life's many processes. Imho, eipic helps. Do talk to your child development doctor on it.

ok, i just kaypo kaypo chip in nia. Couragemom will do the important thing on filling you in on the details. Kekeke!

I agree with tyegoh. It is easy (or rather self denial?) for us parents to feel that our kids may not really have behaviour prob cos very often, we dismiss it as them being boys (mainly are boys here) or just a little distracted, or still young etc. I had thought the same too when my son's teacher first pointed out all these to me when he was 2.5 years old. But what I do is observe other kids his age, most of them have no such issues, then that's when I realise, something is not right.

So back to EIPIC, like Tyegoh, I agree it does help. My son improved alot in his first 6 mths of EIPIC. And I am so glad that I sent him to EIPIC at 2.5years old, cos if I had not, I am not sure if he is able to achieve what he can now at 5 years old.

[Gifts from Heaven]

Double E:

Hi all

I have good news to share. Last fri, my 5year old can finally swim without a float and using breast stroke! I have waited for this day till neck long long, after 1 year and 2 swim coaches, he finally can swim independently, even is just for a short distance, I am contented.

Hi Double E,

Can PM me your coach's contact, locations where he teaches and fees?
Did u go for 1 to 1 or group?

I'm planning for the day when my boy will eventually agree to swim lessons. Actually, he wanted to learn swimming this Dec hols, after knowing that a lot of his classmates could swim. But he chickened out last min after knowing that he has to hold his breath and put his face into the water. Luckily I haven't confirm the swim coach. He has problems getting water on his face. Even in his daily shower, he needs to quickly wipe off any water that flows down his face when he washes his hair, else he thinks that the water is going to get into his eyes and nose and will scream like hell. Does your boy have this problem?

thanks.

[Liyuan]

Appleworm:

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.

Hi Appleworm,

Great to hear that his eye contact is improving. One of the ways i like to use to get better eye contact is that when you are rewarding your child, be it a toy or candy etc, reward it from eye level and hold it up right in between your eye, area above your nose. Once the child look up, then give the reward to the child. The child will then learn that good things come when he or she look at your eye.

For requesting, you can try using the PECs, or compics. It is good that your child knows that he can actually get what he wants by asking for help, but you will want it to be a verbal request. As i am not sure if you child is verbal, there are some slight differences in how you should do it. Have the PECs of the items that he commonly want on a board. Instead of pulling you to what he wants, he should hand you the PEC. Prompt is necessary in the beginning to let him know that he is able to exchange for what he wants if he hand you the appropriate PEC. One very important thing is that remember that you are trying to get him to request. Request are meant to be self initiated. So do not prompt him by asking \"What do you want?\" or something along that line as that wont be requesting any more but merely answering your question. Prompt him non verbally instead. Once he hand you the PEC, do read it for him so that eventually he will just verbalized it when you fade of the PEC.

Hope this helps

Regards,
Liyuan
autismSTEP.com

[Double E]

Gifts from Heaven:

Double E:

Hi all

I have good news to share. Last fri, my 5year old can finally swim without a float and using breast stroke! I have waited for this day till neck long long, after 1 year and 2 swim coaches, he finally can swim independently, even is just for a short distance, I am contented.

Hi Double E,

Can PM me your coach's contact, locations where he teaches and fees?
Did u go for 1 to 1 or group?

I'm planning for the day when my boy will eventually agree to swim lessons. Actually, he wanted to learn swimming this Dec hols, after knowing that a lot of his classmates could swim. But he chickened out last min after knowing that he has to hold his breath and put his face into the water. Luckily I haven't confirm the swim coach. He has problems getting water on his face. Even in his daily shower, he needs to quickly wipe off any water that flows down his face when he washes his hair, else he thinks that the water is going to get into his eyes and nose and will scream like hell. Does your boy have this problem?

thanks.

Hi, thankfully my boy is not afraid of water. Since 3, he would just jump straight into the pool with his float around him n can dip his head into water. That is also why I thought he was ready to learn swimming. But learning how to swim n living water is different matter. For the longest time, he could not coordinate his hands, legs and blowing bubbles together. That's y it took him a year to learn how to swim whereas my friends' NT kids could swim after 3-4 mths.