All About Autism

[Meowmeowling]

Hi, may I get some feedback regarding joining enrichment classes? My son has autism (I can’t tell if he is under the mild or moderate category). His main challenge is communication and can’t sit still. But I do want to try stuff like arts and craft, music, sports etc. But frankly after all the ST/OT really no budget to go for special needs programs. Mainsteam lessons are more affordable for my family and hence would like to understand the feedback from other parents. Thanks.

[ywliow]

Any idea will PL accept student with IQ result of 68?

[sweetbaby]

ywliow\" post_id=\"1902123\" time=\"1552229818\" user_id=\"176292:

Any idea will PL accept student with IQ result of 68?

Hi

May I know what is PL?

[phtthp]

ywliow\" post_id=\"1902123\" time=\"1552229818\" user_id=\"176292:

Any idea will PL accept student with IQ result of 68?

None of us here in this forum, represent Pathlight (PL) school authority, so we won't know the answer to your specific question.

Perhaps just apply to Pathlight and take a one step at a time, from there. All the very best, to your application.

[san20sg]

Can we leave advertisements out of this thread. It’s pretty annoying.

[zac's mum]

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Can we leave advertisements out of this thread. It’s pretty annoying.

I thought that article was quite educational (to me). Anyway, if you think it’s inappropriate, simply click on the “!” aka “report” button and it will send a notice to the forum moderator, who will look into it. That’s what I do for all spammers who post.

[Cool Cool]

Dear parents,

My son was born in Oct 2012 and he is currently attending EIP and childcare. He is supposed to be in primary 1 this year. But I deferred for 1 year and he is currently repeating K2. He holds long term visit pass.

But our citizenship application has just been approved . So I am a bit lost what to do next for his schooling. Could you please give me any suggestion, procedure, direction?

I also have the following questions.
1) Shall I bring him to see the doctor at CDU (Jurong) again? He has seen a doctor in CDU (Jurong) from 2014-2016. After that we did not follow up. If yes, we need to go to polyclinic first to get subsidy?
2) For the diagnostic test for SPED school application form, how long does it need to wait to take the test at government hospital and how much? Any recommended private centre to do the test and how much?

Thanks in advance.

[theradiantspectrum]

Meowmeowling\" post_id=\"1900324\" time=\"1551343653\" user_id=\"119447:

Hi, may I get some feedback regarding joining enrichment classes? My son has autism (I can't tell if he is under the mild or moderate category). His main challenge is communication and can't sit still. But I do want to try stuff like arts and craft, music, sports etc. But frankly after all the ST/OT really no budget to go for special needs programs. Mainsteam lessons are more affordable for my family and hence would like to understand the feedback from other parents. Thanks.

Hi, I do know that children on the spectrum do benefit greatly from music and movement enrichment classes, especially if they are non-verbal or have speech delays. For instance, one of the students I'm currently working with was non-verbal up to 4 years old and the parents didn't know how to teach him, or if he was even absorbing any of the information they were saying. We are currently in our 9th month of lessons and he's able to sound out some words and hum tunes in response to questions we ask.

Children with less severe autism are also able to pick up the piano if they show an interest, much like regular kids. Don't hesitate to explore enrichment classes for your child and always speak with the educator first to see if he/she is able to handle an autistic child. You may find some experienced teachers out there who will be able to teach according to your son's learning style!

[yanoby]

Crossroads\" post_id=\"1893666\" time=\"1547019719\" user_id=\"174779:

Dear Parents,
I am father of a 4 year boy who was assessed by KKH a year ago. The developmental paediatric doc there suggested he has ASD. he was exactly 3yrs 4 months at the time. When he was between 2 and 3 years old, we did notice odd signs but made the mistake of assuming those were normal delays - until we saw a doc who noticed some key behavioural issues. What we noticed were issues like: not answering to his name, keeping to himself, not responding to requests. At KKH at age 3.4 yrs, many other aspects were observed like very less eye contact, 1-2 word speech only, not understanding verbal cues, lining up cars, not being able to jump, not expressing himslef at all, not poinitng.
Fast fwd to now at 3 yr 11months, after interventions of 6 days a week (social,behavioral and kiddie gym), my son is able to talk 5-8 word sentences, responds 7-8/10 times to his name or to requests, expresses almost all his needs well, enjoys playing with peers/friends downstairs but does limit fully interacting with peers, has 70-80% eye contact, happy and cheerful most of the time (as always), comments while we read books, rarely lines up cars. At school however, his teacher mentions that he barely talks to peers- only sometimes. But he does respond to her questions and instructions. And is on par academically (its just Nursery1 though).
With his progress in 7months of intervention, we are now wondering if it's truly ASD. Could anyone share their experiences if you have had improvements at similar pace? i would still continue with interventions no matter what, as we are still searching for ways to being him on par with NTs, but would like to hear your experiences.
Also, we have seen him improve in spurts every 2.5-3 months. In his last spurt when there were no interventions (due to 1.5 month holidays from mid Nov) was when we saw his best spurt where we saw him speak more and more and express more.
A long one sorry, hope to hear from you. Thanks for reading.

Hi CR, thanks for sharing your story. Our boy is having many things in common with yours and we also suspect he is having ASD. He is 2 years old and has very little eye contact, rarely looks at our eyes while we are talking to him, or responds to his name. He is able to say a number of letters of the alphabet, say several words of objects but has not been able to initiate calling or pointing things by himself. His gross and fine motor skills seem fine.
We have just started early intervention for him. It is a private intervention center and all are home-based 2-hour lessons.
I am just wondering if any special behavioral test/assessment was done to suggest or diagnose him having ASD? And may I know if your boy's intervention sessions (6 days a week) are all at KKH? Thanks

[Simply00123]

yanoby\" post_id=\"1905386\" time=\"1554630482\" user_id=\"48066:

Crossroads\" post_id=\"1893666\" time=\"1547019719\" user_id=\"174779:

Dear Parents,
I am father of a 4 year boy who was assessed by KKH a year ago. The developmental paediatric doc there suggested he has ASD. he was exactly 3yrs 4 months at the time. When he was between 2 and 3 years old, we did notice odd signs but made the mistake of assuming those were normal delays - until we saw a doc who noticed some key behavioural issues. What we noticed were issues like: not answering to his name, keeping to himself, not responding to requests. At KKH at age 3.4 yrs, many other aspects were observed like very less eye contact, 1-2 word speech only, not understanding verbal cues, lining up cars, not being able to jump, not expressing himslef at all, not poinitng.
Fast fwd to now at 3 yr 11months, after interventions of 6 days a week (social,behavioral and kiddie gym), my son is able to talk 5-8 word sentences, responds 7-8/10 times to his name or to requests, expresses almost all his needs well, enjoys playing with peers/friends downstairs but does limit fully interacting with peers, has 70-80% eye contact, happy and cheerful most of the time (as always), comments while we read books, rarely lines up cars. At school however, his teacher mentions that he barely talks to peers- only sometimes. But he does respond to her questions and instructions. And is on par academically (its just Nursery1 though).
With his progress in 7months of intervention, we are now wondering if it's truly ASD. Could anyone share their experiences if you have had improvements at similar pace? i would still continue with interventions no matter what, as we are still searching for ways to being him on par with NTs, but would like to hear your experiences.
Also, we have seen him improve in spurts every 2.5-3 months. In his last spurt when there were no interventions (due to 1.5 month holidays from mid Nov) was when we saw his best spurt where we saw him speak more and more and express more.
A long one sorry, hope to hear from you. Thanks for reading.

Hi CR, thanks for sharing your story. Our boy is having many things in common with yours and we also suspect he is having ASD. He is 2 years old and has very little eye contact, rarely looks at our eyes while we are talking to him, or responds to his name. He is able to say a number of letters of the alphabet, say several words of objects but has not been able to initiate calling or pointing things by himself. His gross and fine motor skills seem fine.
We have just started early intervention for him. It is a private intervention center and all are home-based 2-hour lessons.
I am just wondering if any special behavioral test/assessment was done to suggest or diagnose him having ASD? And may I know if your boy's intervention sessions (6 days a week) are all at KKH? Thanks

Hi, will you be able to share what do you do at the home base therapy? I'm try to find more info on how to help my child at home on my own. My son is 20 months old. We just went to kkh for assessment and was suspected for autism. We are on waiting list to attend the parents speech workshop (currently no slot), after then we can make appointment for speech therapy at kkh. I'm afraid time is wasted for long appointment waiting time, so trying to find more info on how to help.him at home on my own. Thanks...