It's been a while since I posted about Raiyan's progress with the therapy. Alhamdulillah, Kerri, Jo and Tracy have all said that he is doing very well with the programme. In fact, what is more important for him to focus on more these days is (surprise surprise) his social skills and his behaviour in class so we are now even considering reducing the ABA hours and instead adding on more hours for him to be supported in class.
With Raiyan’s basic language in place, his ABA programme has been geared into more logical thinking exercises that are compelling him to think more for answers rather than just being rotely told what to say. And from what I observed with his session with Jo yesterday, he is coming up with the most adorable answers ever!
Unfortunately, I have to admit that I have been slightly out of date with his ABA programme lately but now that I will be staying put in Brunei for at least 7 weeks before my next trip, I’m really hoping to get back into gear and start generalising his programme more (plus we are also newly energised with Raiyan’s new therapy room in our new home).
Things that Raiyan was doing with Jo yesterday:
1) Odd one out: Raiyan lays out five different objects that belong to a same family (like animals, fruits, transportations) and he asks Jo a question which would single out one item out of the 5 and then 4 etc until all are eliminated. So for example, in a family of animals, he asked “which one has a snout?” or “which one has a mane on its neck?” and Jo would (easily :D) guess which one he is speaking of. And remember this is ALL voluntary language on Raiyan’s part and not rotely taught at all!
2) Pragmatics cards: More hypothetical situations are set up for Raiyan in these cards and Raiyan is expected to answer what he would do in such a situation. Though some answers (especially in situations where he may not be familiar with) are given through the cards but one such as “What makes you angry?”, he answered himself with “When Alisha scribble my drawings”.. so cute! (But poor Alisha.. Jo said she’s blamed for a lot of things that upsets Raiyan..!)
3) Describing things: Raiyan will be given an object that he needs to describe with 2 or more descriptions. This is really good in encouraging his natural language to come out and also will help familiarise him with everyday situations when he needs to describe things to others to get others to understand what he means.
4) I/you/my/you/his/her: I HAVE NO IDEA HOW JO AND TRACY MANAGED TO GET THIS THROUGH INTO RAIYAN but they did! Raiyan always gets his pronouns mixed up so a good way for him to familiarise this is by doing things such as making him touch Jo’s nose and ask him what is he doing (“I am touching your nose”) or making him ask us what we are doing when we are holding Alisha’s hand (“You are holding her hand”) etc etc. He will almost always get it right IF he concentrates but at least we know he is capable of doing so :D
Raiyan is also doing better in class. His reading is very good and he is up to 4B stage now which we are told by his teacher to be the highest stage for his year now :D. He is also acceptable to do more writing and is actually doing more on his own at home (his current favourite now is writing birthday cards for his best friend Adek).
Of course his behaviour, especially in terms of his “loudness” still needs to be worked on. At the moment, Raiyan actually has a slight sore throat and is losing his voice a bit so hopefully from here, we will try and train him to get used to talking in a lower voice.
Alhamdulillah again for all the progress. Til next time!
With Raiyan’s basic language in place, his ABA programme has been geared into more logical thinking exercises that are compelling him to think more for answers rather than just being rotely told what to say. And from what I observed with his session with Jo yesterday, he is coming up with the most adorable answers ever!
Unfortunately, I have to admit that I have been slightly out of date with his ABA programme lately but now that I will be staying put in Brunei for at least 7 weeks before my next trip, I’m really hoping to get back into gear and start generalising his programme more (plus we are also newly energised with Raiyan’s new therapy room in our new home).
Things that Raiyan was doing with Jo yesterday:
1) Odd one out: Raiyan lays out five different objects that belong to a same family (like animals, fruits, transportations) and he asks Jo a question which would single out one item out of the 5 and then 4 etc until all are eliminated. So for example, in a family of animals, he asked “which one has a snout?” or “which one has a mane on its neck?” and Jo would (easily :D) guess which one he is speaking of. And remember this is ALL voluntary language on Raiyan’s part and not rotely taught at all!
2) Pragmatics cards: More hypothetical situations are set up for Raiyan in these cards and Raiyan is expected to answer what he would do in such a situation. Though some answers (especially in situations where he may not be familiar with) are given through the cards but one such as “What makes you angry?”, he answered himself with “When Alisha scribble my drawings”.. so cute! (But poor Alisha.. Jo said she’s blamed for a lot of things that upsets Raiyan..!)
3) Describing things: Raiyan will be given an object that he needs to describe with 2 or more descriptions. This is really good in encouraging his natural language to come out and also will help familiarise him with everyday situations when he needs to describe things to others to get others to understand what he means.
4) I/you/my/you/his/her: I HAVE NO IDEA HOW JO AND TRACY MANAGED TO GET THIS THROUGH INTO RAIYAN but they did! Raiyan always gets his pronouns mixed up so a good way for him to familiarise this is by doing things such as making him touch Jo’s nose and ask him what is he doing (“I am touching your nose”) or making him ask us what we are doing when we are holding Alisha’s hand (“You are holding her hand”) etc etc. He will almost always get it right IF he concentrates but at least we know he is capable of doing so :D
Raiyan is also doing better in class. His reading is very good and he is up to 4B stage now which we are told by his teacher to be the highest stage for his year now :D. He is also acceptable to do more writing and is actually doing more on his own at home (his current favourite now is writing birthday cards for his best friend Adek).
Of course his behaviour, especially in terms of his “loudness” still needs to be worked on. At the moment, Raiyan actually has a slight sore throat and is losing his voice a bit so hopefully from here, we will try and train him to get used to talking in a lower voice.
Alhamdulillah again for all the progress. Til next time!
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