Still in his early communication stage, he is able to not only to make request for variety of things, make choices but lately able to comment and extend his sentence construction. We will try create opportunity for his turn taking during people games like chasing, playing balloon or even during meal or snack time.Doing physical & verbal models of things he can do or say such words, phrases and short sentences from his point of view has done great help to elevate his turn taking in communication as he is able repeat what he hears. WH question that present choices and fill in the blanks are some others we try to explore.
Had made 2 more visual support for "No silly Noise" & "Quiet Hand" to reinforce his verbal stim & to regulate unnecessary handmovement from visual stim at home, while continue to refresh & teach him on the volume thermometer, he understands better when
presented with the visual rules/cue during difficult behavior. Also his strength in imitation also make him follow better if we whisper
& model to him to reduce his vocal during our re-direction.
For no silly noise, we may add gesture to indicates that silly noise hurt our ears by cupping our ears with hand to show him the consequence. Also ready in hand some emotion icons on our hall way to teach and associate him whenever his mood reflects one of those.
Wanted to bring our little STAR to the usual Indian barber shop in our neighbourhood but unfortunately it did not open, decided to let him try the hair dressing saloon next to the shop instead. Our little STAR seemed anxious at first, but we had managed to reinforce with him and transit him in and glad that all went well. Just try to share some background information to the hair dresser about our little STAR special needs but coincidentally discover that she too, also has a friend with child in the spectrum also, getting prevalent these days, we are not alone in these special walk.
I was delighted to be able to join my wife and the little STAR for his Term 2nd outing in late Oct. It was another fruitful and enriching learning journey taking the Hippo Bus & Duck boat ride which involve every children in the EIP. It has never been easy managing the little STAR in the public as he is usually over responsive to the open environment and will run about exploring places where he desires. Glad that he still follow the day's agenda while waiting to board the Duck Boat.
The Duck Boat ride was an eye opener where it sailed us through some of the important landmark of Singapore like the Flyer, MBS IR, Floating Stage, Esplanade, our very own Merlion & the Financial District. Also manage to get a glimpse of another new landmark in the making, looks like a shape of a Shell, reminds me of Sydney Opera House, look forward to its completion.The end of Oct also marks the completion of our little STAR 2nd Kindermusiz Theme of "Imagine That", a great 15 weeks program that make the best of music to elevate his learning in social interaction with 3-4 other children within the group, new words were learned & language in functional communication and not forgetting body parts co-ordination and movement.
We are proud of our little STAR achievement thus far, no matter what he may become, we will always rejoice in his presence and embrace his imperfection.Take this opportunity of Halloween Night to share a statement:-
Each day as you dress, costume yourself in truth as the successful, intelligent, kind, loving, giving person that you are and be the character of your highest good. TRICK
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