100 Days Progress!

Yes, yes I do admit to being ridiculously behind with Raiyan's progress update. FIVE weeks to be exact.

There's no special story or significant justification behind my lax in not having done so. It's basically no more than just a loss of momentum due to inducing factors like school holidays, reduced therapy sessions, increasing workload at the job front for pweshes mama including a 5 day overseas trip... but perhaps the most substantial cause was the perfectionist in me succumbed to the pressure (which I realise I've placed upon myself - siapa suruh promise to give weekly progress ?) and as a result, rebelled from updating altogether!!

So I surrender. It's no longer going to be a weekly thing, nor bi-weekly and nor monthly. Let's just say that to help avoid a "ritual", I'll just post a progress post whenever I feel like it ok!

Furthermore, all the other random stories I tell still blends in many aspects of Raiyan's progress anyway right? So I'm hardly not reporting on his progress aren't I? (Ok enough defending yourself dude, I'm sure nobody else but yourself has placed such expectations on you! - pweshes inner voice).

BUT anyway, with this being the 100th day since Raiyan started his ABA therapy, I think it is momentous day for me to list out ALL of his achievements, at least those within the walls of his therapy sessions:

Raiyan has now generalised (employs on a daily basis OR "biasa udah"):

• Answering yes or no to questions posed to him;
• Many verbs including standing, sitting, eating, clapping, sleeping, laughing etc etc
• Naming body parts
• Naming clothings
• Naming all the rooms and things in the house
• Possession (Raiyan's nose/Mama's book/Alisha's doll)
• Pretending
• Can answer basic social questions like "what is your name?", "how are you?", "how old are you?", "which school do you go to?" and more
• Imaginative play
• Opposites
• Displaying and recognising emotions such as happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised and tired
• Prepositions such as on, in, under, beside, behind, front, over etc
• Greetings. He'll bagi salam or say hi and say bye easily
• Say short sentences that start with "I want.." and "Can I have..." and "I think it's a...", "It's a ..." "I see a..." and "I have a..."
• Hold pencil properly and write the alphabet appropriately
• Can follow simple auditory instructions
• Can sequence 5 picture cards, which comes first, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and last eg. a scene of a boy eating or opening a present
• Desensitised with new sounds
• Loves to read story books and able to understand the story
• Functions of certain things like pen, cup, car, chair, plate, and will be able to answer for eg. what do you drink with? with a cup!
• Can list out simple categories such as fruits, musical instruments, transportations etc
• Can answer random where questions?
• Can answer random whose questions?

We are still working on:

• Exchanging information (conversing)
• Trying new foods
• Desentising touch of wet and dirty things
• The "l" phonetic
• "my" and "your"
• pronouns: he, she, I, you and they
• First and Last but when you mix the sequence around he still gets confused
• Why questions?
• Reciprocating more social questions
• Gender: man, woman, boy and girl

Just starting on:

• Abstract thinking, For eg, his one track mind cannot handle an apple being a fruit AND a thing that is red.. We have to teach him that it's possible for something to have more than one purpose!
• Cause and effect
• Describing things more flowingly
• More critical thinking
• Imitating gestures

Syukur Alhamdulillah, Raiyan has really come a long way the last 100 days! Looking forward to the days ahead!

Thank you all of Raiyan's beautiful readers for all your support!!