Special needs kids?

[Khloe]

Hi Jake,

I can imagine how hard it is for you seeing your grandchild having a tantrum....and feeling helpless.  You could use Little Reader and prepare a slideshow of what is to happen during the day.  Autistic children usually feel more secure when they have a time table.  You could spend some time together watching the slideshow every morning (to get him into a routine) before going to school, such that he would know what will happen during the day.

Moreover you could ask his teacher or learning support assisstant (LSA)to give you some details of the activities that he does during the day.  Then you could prepare a set of flashcards of all the activities, for example.... story telling, colouring, and so on.  Then, every morning, the LSA can help your grandson put the flashcards in order of what will happen and srick them on a timeline.  As soon as one activity is over, he can pull the flashcard out, like this he would know what is to come. 

TIP:  the timeline could be a wide strip of felt, such that the velcro can easily stick to it.

I hope that this will help.  I used this method with autistic children, and with some it was successful.  Good luck    

[Jake]

 Today I,m very happy ,he stayed all day. last year his facalitater made him that schelud you told me,but in summerwas used to play sing nursery rhymes , take him to multi densory room , go in the swiming pool,he got too much attached. Most of all my husband and me went to weekend break and left him with his father.When I came back he did not let me not even to go to toilet .He gt upset and get tantrum.this mornig Isat made him the slide show before we left for the bus ,sat him near a girl he likes and she went down with him to class. that story telling realy works with these kids . thanks

[Khloe]

Hi,

Glad to hear that he's settling down.  My son starts school next week and hopefully he'll get used tothe routine soon.  He's very attached to me, since this summer we had a lot of fun together.  Like you said he had swimming lessons, and multisensory, apart from doing a lot of fun activities together.  Today is the first day of school of my other child - Leah - she didn't cry but was scared of all the other children screaming and crying!  IHobestly I felt guilty leaving her....she's still young 1 year 10 months.  But anyway hopefully she'll get to enjoy playschool.  c ya all.  take care.

[vcorzano]

Today I,m very happy ,he stayed all day. last year his facalitater made him that schelud you told me,but in summerwas used to play sing nursery rhymes , take him to multi densory room , go in the swiming pool,he got too much attached. Most of all my husband and me went to weekend break and left him with his father.When I came back he did not let me not even to go to toilet .He gt upset and get tantrum.this mornig Isat made him the slide show before we left for the bus ,sat him near a girl he likes and she went down with him to class. that story telling realy works with these kids . thanks

[vcorzano]

Im  not sure how to use this thing, Please help. 

[Jake]

u reciv e an e ail lik where there is underline and it opens your reply.whant to doun load something klick on it.try the once from bril first .

[kmum]

I'm glad to hear your grandson is doing better.  What do you do in multisensory?

[Jake]

In sensory room there is a big room ful of cushins .There is a swing and he jumps into a box full of plastic balls,there is a tunel with small light in .turning colours.there is like a hammerok and he gets in it and turn around. then I take him in a white room and in all white cushions .hamerrok ,there is like tube bubbles going up,and water matresses,when I take the day after he is calm ,in the same area then i take him 2 hr in the pool.the first thing that helped jake .when I brought him and they anilized that he was autistic he was like a cabbage. no emtoins always looking sad and worried.now he looks happy and he smiles although he does not speak yet when he smiles like telling me keep going nanna

[Khloe]

Hi Jake,

Sorry if I may sound indiscreet... but by any chance are you maltese?  cause the multisensory room and white room you described are exactly the ones my son goes to!!  Now I know that most multisensory rooms are similar giving that they serve the same purpose, but the one you described sound sooo similar!! 

[Jake]

Yes Iam yesterday i did the social story that I uploaded and even before he went to sleep i showed it to him .His coach driver name is cancu and when i told him cancu came he realy giggled.We see now tomorrow before we walk to the coach i show it again .it is realy working on him.The first day he went to school he was in tantrum from 8 till noon .Infact even the fac worried and we where going to ask for help . good night .

[justus]

Hi  Jake

I've a son with special needs, his condition is very similar to Down Syndrome in terms of motor skill development but yet has the behavioural issues similar to Austistic kids.

we started to do Glenn Doman with IAHP (australia) when he is 10 mth old.  He is coming to 5 yrs old soon.  We started flashing cards, sensory input, eye tracking exercises, patterning, etc.

On top of it I showed him the Signing Time CDs as well.  I started PECS (Picture Exchange Communication) when he is 18 months old.  Initially he uses a lot of signing to communicate to us as he has no speech yet.  But gradually as his motor skills improved, he is able to reach out to his PECs card to let us know the things he wanted. 

From the Glenn Doman programme it has helped him :
to focus, to start crawlling, creeping and walking, stimulate his senses
 
From Signing time he learnt :
all his alphabets, colors, animals, signing for milk, water etc

I've slowly fade out these as he is slowly able to speak now and I've started to embark on another method called ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis) 

ABA is known to work very well with Autistickids. You may want to GOOGLE on it and read more about it.   

 
Best  regards

 

[Jake]

hi justus, thank for your information, Ihave tried to begin the packs but it was in the last month of School and had no help to contiue .Besides he had changed his facilitater at school 3 times as she was pregnant and had her maternity leave.hope this year we get settled and start again.about that program you told me to seach on google can you tell me the site I ask for. thanks for your help .

[justus]

Hi Jake you may want to try to go to this site :
 
http://home.gci.net/~featak/introduction_aba.htm.

Cheers

[Khloe]

Hi everyone!

good to hear someone else is from the island!!  You're the first maltese to meet here at Brillkids!  Justus is right about ABA technique, I came across it when reading a fiction book based on a true story.  The name of the book is: 'Daniel isn't Talking' and it is about an autistic boy, how he got diagnosed, the effect on his family, especially hhis parents, and how by time he got better and better until h started to talk......   very interesting to read. 

Have agood week everyone! My son starts school tomorrow,  hopefully he'll get used to it soon. 

Khloe xx 

[Jake]

thanks to you all . Now I 'll see if I can find it from library .Last week I borrowed one and its name is :I am not nauthy Iam autistic . it is about a boy that wrote it himself with the help of his mum . Iread it in one day . It is almost like my grandson .He used to talk and play and giggle .All of a sudden he was like a leave no emoitions just looking worried and cries.reading these kind of books motivate me to contue maybe he will talk again .thanks to all.

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