[Stella Li]

If you have the following wanted to sell them, please let me know ASAP.

Videos: Full House, Brady Bunch Episodes, Berstein Bears, Veggie Tales: David & Golliath, Andy Griffith, Buffy & Jodie

Books: Simon Baron Books: Mind Reading for Children with Autism, Pre-K to K books

Games: Barnyard Bingo

Educational cards: Sequencing cards – LDA

Please reply to stellali888@shaw.ca

Thanks

Stella

[Stella Li]

Hi everyone,

My son loves his Barney books which I bought from the ABA fundraising nite at the South Surrey meeting site (Thanks you Nancy for organizing!! We had fun and got excellent stuff. Hope we can do this more often).

My son had the "Barney & Baby Bop Go to the Doctor" book and "Barney & Baby Bop Go to the Library" books. However, he really wants to have: Barney go to the fire station, Barney go to school,…books. He has been asking for those books every day!!

If you have Barney books that your child no longer reads, please let me know. I will be pleased to purchase and pick up the books! If you know other source of getting those books, pls also let me know. Thanks!

Stella
stellali888@shaw.ca

[Stella Li]

Reagarding: meaningless jargons:

Please send your reply to FEAT or privately to stellali888@shaw.ca

Thanks!

Stella

[Stella Li]

Wanted some input regarding self-stim with jargons that are meaningless.

My son has been in a home program for almost 15 months. He is always a complaint boy and has improved a lot but in the past few weeks/month he has increasing self-stim with meaningless jargons that are difficult to redirect. Sometimes redirection leads to more negative behaviours. He may have picked up these jargons from videos, machines/books with sounds…etc.

If you have this experience with your child or your client, could you share with me what methods work to reduce this self-stim behaviour?

I know this is a question for the consultant and we cannot generalize our experience, however I like to hear your sharing and how you tackle this behaviour.

Thank you in advance!

Stella

[Stella Li]

Reading Kandi's msg made me thought about my typical daughter when we first started ABA therapy a year ago. She was 1 1/2 at that time, very curious and tried to bolt to the basement everytime the therapist came for therapy. She wanted to have fun, to play together with her autistic brother and his therapist. She would cried too, would run to the basement when we were not paying attention.

Sometimes we allowed her to go downstairs to be my son's playdate. Sometimes we distracted her and engaged her in another activities. She is allowed to go into the therapy room to play those nice toys when therapy is not on.

After a few months, my daughter no longer wanted to go downstairs when there is therapy. She is a year older now and seemed to have adjusted well. She seemed to understand it's her brother's learning time. She has her own learning time and playtime inside and outside the house. When her brother comes upstairs, they play together happily :-) and they fight…

When she is older, we will explain to her about her brother's condition.

We pray for our children everynight before they go to bed!!

Well, she is here now and my son is in therapy. I better go to play with her…

Cheers everyone!!

Stella

[Stella Li]

Lis, I did similar thing as Dave did for his children. My children are younger. The son (has autism) will go to kindergarten in September. My daughter is 2 1/2. She does copy negative behaviours: perseverate requesting, some guesture of her brother…etc. We have been running our ABA program for just over a year and my son has improved a lot!! I have changed from worrying to doing what we can to help both of them.

(1) give my daughter attention as much as possible. While my son is in therapy, I may take her out to run errands. When I am busy, grandma or our part-time nanny will occupy her or take her to the park. The therapists try to give her some attention as far as they could, when they see her around. Sometimes my daughter is my son's playdate in session for 10-15 mins.

(2) take my daughter away while my son tantrums and I have to tackle the tantrum. We don't want her to see.

(3) be fair to both of them. If they misbehave, they will both be disciplined

(4) they started to play together and interact with each other independently, and my daughter is the one who initiates. Her brother loves to play with her and they fight for toys as typical siblings… I found that my daughter is helping my son a lot because of her active and playful nature. I make use of the chance to teach sharing, turn taking, play skills, and appropriate speech and language, for both of them and it works.

(5) My daughter is not going to pre-school yet but I'll take her to some classes (tot gym, storytime, kids' program) in September. She is exposed to typical children at our church and at our home quite often.

So far, things work out well. My children are enjoying each other's company. I am happy that I have a typical child to interact with my autistic one, to help him interact and play. They love each other though they fight like typical siblings.

Hope this helps!!

Stella

[Stella Li]

Hi Anne,
My son has a youth account with CIBC. There is no charge for writing cheques, no monthly charge for debit and credit because of the "youth discount". He even earned a small interest every month!
His account was under my name INF (in trust of) his name.
The only problem was that the cheques from MCFD was under my name, so I cannot deposit the cheques directly to my son's account. Have to write a cheque (from my account to his) after I deposit the MCFD cheque to my account. I get used to it.
Hope this helps.
Let me know if you need more help.
Stella
stellali888@shaw.ca

[Stella Li]

Hi Anne,
My son has a youth account with CIBC. There is no charge for writing cheques, no monthly charge for debit and credit because of the "youth discount". He even earned a small interest every month!
His account was under my name INF (in trust of) his name.
The only problem was that the cheques from MCFD was under my name, so I cannot deposit the cheques directly to my son's account. Have to write a cheque (from my account to his) after I deposit the MCFD cheque to my account. I get used to it.
Hope this helps.
Let me know if you need mroe help.
Stella
stellali888@shaw.ca

[Stella Li]

Hi Christine,

I agreed with what Michelle had said. Follow your consultant's advice. One year of intensive therapy at home will make a big difference in developing a child's language, communication, play skills, and social skills to prepare her to enter pre-school.

I wish I had put my son in the home program earlier because his first year of pre-school was wasted. What a difference after we implemented our home program in the summer before his second year in preschool. His second year of preschool was a success (we started to put him in 1x/week and increased to 2x/week when he was ready) because we had a tutor going with him and he learned his skills at home for the school setting. He is now ready for kindergarten in September.

Feel free to call me. We may come out for coffee or lunch with the other parents.

Hope everything works out and you'll have a smooth start of the ABA program!!

Stella

[Stella Li]

I don't pay GST to my consultants. I think if the consultant has a company then she/he has to pay GST to Revenue Canada. Then she/he may charge GST. Make sense?

Stella

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