It seems just yesterday that I submitted my blog post to welcome the New Year 2015 and now in fact we had concluded Term 1, how time flies. So thankful that my little hero has come this far of the journey with more potential to explore and maximize further.
Today I had met up with his form teacher and had a fruitful discussion with her about how we envision more great success stories for every child in coming days with the right intervention and prompt mitigation through good collaborative & co-operative efforts among parents & sped educators.. Several hidden agendas were unfold and we shared how we can redirect negative reaction into appropriate response for the child to improve outcome, the IEP goals were reasonable with some hard work need to be expended to elevate his learning outcome. Kuodos to the SPED Team !
Success
is not necessarily what you have achieved. Sometimes it is what you have
overcome. The last 10 weeks had been several inch stone progress for him to count his blessing. More aware in space, more talkative in partner communication, more expressive language projected with some unwanted behavior corrected. More daily living skill converted in taking shower more independently, on top of toiletry habits he had already mastered previously.
One certainly is his mum's birthday, i bought a simple cake to get him sing and blow candles with her, notice that both kids are growing up faster and taller than we will wish for.
Practice practice and practice, practice make improvement. There is no short cut for him, everything other children learn naturally, he needs to be taught and to practice more repetition to gain confident. Work is always in progress with model
to show the right, scaffold to ask back questions and guide along, let it go
for greater independence, explain to improve further understanding. With the right approach tailor to his learning needs, we hope it can help to elevate his visualization in making the mind see things that eyes cannot see.
Beside work there are moment of play and family bonding too!
Chinese New Year had been another great experience for him from reunion dinner out to playing game with cousin to visiting relatives with grandparents and collecting Ang Pow.
During our own reunion at home, he even insisted to be chef by putting on a white cap and started to cook for us, he is probably influenced by one of his favourite show on Channel 8 Hey Chef ! We went with his flow and praised him for the food well cook, it was yummy in our tummy the meat, veggies, sausages etc..
Success breed success, his mum went on to work with him on another cooking activities few weeks after, making baked rice.
People
who are succeeding in some aspect of their life are succeeding because they’re
giving this aspect “extra energy” in the form of “increased power
of intention.”
Instead
of just merely thinking about their dreams with just a little bit of energy – they’re
passionately believing in their dreams – and passionately doing habits
moving towards their dreams. . We just gonna keep putting that extreme energy into our power of intention to hope that the dream will one day bare fruits of independence for him and also bring positive impact to others in need.
When we work we work hard, but when come to play, we will try every effort to play harder.
Above top pictures were taken after he trikked wiith me & running buddies for 5.7km. Above bottom, basket ball session on one Sunday morning, still hope to have more regular sessions over weekend.
To leverage his deficit in social skill, we engaged him on a weekly social group therapy session to improve this aspect of learning. It has been coming to 3 years and we are very grateful to the therapists and the children in the group to co-create another opportunity to engage in this mutual learning. Every week we would accumulate the visual drawings during parent empowerment debrief via whatapp by a parent to all parents. We value this weekly commitment and marvel at his smiles of happiness from each session with love.
Visit to Navy Open House, havng some photo taken and explore social space through the community.
This is so true after having walk with him since 2009, he has not only help me to see life in different perspective but help me in my work at well to response & think positively, adapt readily to changes and never give up when facing challenging moment and difficulties.
He will be kept busy with holiday home program engagement, school homework packages, outing to explore science, sport in exercising and more practice to revise Term 1 subjects and generalize life skill being taught.
We will soon approaching April, a month to look forward every year to celebrate, spread and support Autism Awareness and embrace this special community.
World Autism Awareness in Singapore is now in its 5th year running !
2 April is declared by UN General Assembly as World Autism Awareness Day, it aims to raise awareness and increase knowledge of autism as well as impart education about the importance of early diagnosis, intervention and treatment of autism.
There will be a public show case in HDB Hub Mall @ Toa Payoh on 27 Mar from 5-7.30 pm, do come down to support this good cause.
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