[Catherine Hui]

What is the optimal number of therapy hours/week for a preschool child?

Our son is 3.5yo and attends preschool 10hr/week. He currently receives an additional 20hr of home ABA therapy. I think that quite a lot for a 3 year old child–he never even get to watch TV! However, he has made great gains and I wonder rather he will benefit with more intensive therapy.

You experience and wisdom is greatly appreciated.

hui_catherine@hotmail.com

[Catherine Hui]

Vancouver South Granville family looking for an ABA therapist to join a well established team. Our son is 3.5 years old. He is fun loving and verbal.

You must be 19 year old and older with a current clear criminal check. Experience is an asset but not necessary. We will provide the training. Wages are based on experience.

You will be required to work 2 shifts per week (2.5hr) and attend a team meeting every 2 weeks.

Please reply to hui_catherine@hotmail.com if you are interested.

[Catherine Hui]

Hi everyone:

Thank you for all your responses.

Now I have another dilemma. We are scheduled to start ABA next week. However, my 26mo son has changed son so much in the last month that I don't know what's going on anymore! He went from only 2 words 2 months ago to 30 words now. He can point to body parts and is starting to point to demand things. His eye contact is also a lot better. He is easy to enage most of the time. He can follow most simple instructions. He actually gave grandpa a kiss when he was asked to! We basically just tried to engage him at all times and apply some ABA principles at home. The SPL and behavioural consultant are both surprised at his changes. Can autism improve so quickly with "not so" intensive therapy?

However, I suspect he still fall in the spectrum. He is a bit weird at times, babbling to himself a lot. He is still language delayed. Fortunately, he is yet to exhibit any repetivitive behaviours or rigidity.

We are getting the funding so we are going ahead with ABA. My SPL is against ABA. He said it will HARM him. Can ABA harm a child if he is not autistic?

Catherine

[Catherine Hui]

Hi everyone:

My 26mo son has been recently diagnosed. We are starting an ABA program for him. The 2 consultants we have interviewed are Bernadette Marzo and Hoa Chan. Any information or personal experience with these consultants would be appreciated.

This is another questions on bilingualism. We have been speaking to our son in Chinese for the last 2 years. He has receptive language as he is able to followed one step instructions in Chinese. He also have about 15-20 words in Chinese. Unfortunately, the ABA therapy will be conducted in English. We are worried the switch in language is going to confused him even more. Any experience or advice on this?

We appreciate your help.

my email is hui_catherine@hotmail.com

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