My Special Journey with Advaith

Dear Friends, In this video I am sharing ideas about different steps of Sight Reading.I am showing materials and explaining how I moved step by step with Advaith. First step is identification and labelling in each category and then words to picture matching, then I did spellings, then sentence to picture matching and making simple sentences for pictures. Now I am working on sentence level.Actually I did a combination of sight reading and phonics. I hope this video will help other parents to make materials and to work with their children. Regards Smrithy and Addu. smrithyrajesh.blogspot.in Sight reading First step identification and labelling, then words to pictures matching, then spellings, then sentence to picture matching,… YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, For the younger kids With love Addu and Smrithy Teaching shapes It is an important Prenumber concept YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, Most of our kids have difficulties to answer Yes or No questions.They are just repeating our questions or words,when we are asking .So this way I taught my son the concept of yes or no during table top time and then generalised it with headnodding( because he is not able to talk clearly).After that I noticed that,he is able to express his likes and dislikes by saying ' ya ya' for yes and ' ni ni' for no according to daily life situations.Example,if we are asking,Do you want apple,he is saying yaya. So I am sharing with you all for helping other kids... Teaching how to answer ' yes' and 'no' questions I am providing visual cards on the table to choose.Using… YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, I am reading small story books for my son and then asking questions using Avaz.Before I used to take printouts of the different pictures and was working in the same manner.With Avaz,it is easy to work like this and my son really enjoys with visual and auditory inputs from Avaz.This way I am trying to improve his comprehension.I hope,it will be helpful for younger​kids Story time with Avaz I added different folders in Avaz with choices.We can add our favourite pictures according to kids understanding level.We… YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, I taught big and small concepts with my son using lots of objects and pictures.Now I am using Avaz to generalise this concept and to built more language skills. Teaching big and small concepts using structured file and avaz Using pictures of ball,tree, butterfly and balloon.Using Avaz… YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, I am teaching prepositions with common objects that they are using in their daily lives and now introducing Avaz to built more language in the table top time.I hope,this video will be helpful for younger kids Teaching prepositions in,on Using objects boxes,car,pencil and blocks.Using Avaz for more generalisation YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, Today I am sharing with you all,how I am building work skills for my son.I saw lots of kids with various skills but they need continuous prompts to focus and complete their work.Because of the prompt dependency they are not able to work independently after their vocational training also.We are following structured teaching method at home and at school.According to kids understanding level we can keep object, picture or written schedule.In this independent activity time ,we are teaching work skills,so we are keeping Activities,that kids can do independently.But trainer should stand behind and not giving verbal prompts.And one more thing I am doing is a floor time activity,in that I am arranging activities on the floor from left to right and he is completing all Activities from left to right without any supervisor.I hope this will help other parents and kids.. How to arrange an independent session using visual schedule Through independent session,w...

Trying to teach badminton,with shuttle bat and balloon.Swaminadhan Sir was suggesting to use balloon to give more confident and motivation to the child.Its really working.Addu is more motivated to play with balloon and he learnt to hold bat in different directions.Thank you sir for the wonderful idea... sharing it to all parents Playing shuttle bat with balloon Instead of cork using balloon giving kids more confident and it helps to keep internet for biginners YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends,  Some of the parents contacted me for pre reading activities. So I made this video of ' how to teach colour concepts '.I am using different flash cards. If we are doing lots of matching and sorting with colours, visual discrimination skills will improve and it will help them for making bracelets with various color combinations.In this video Addu is using Avaz for labelling colours. In Avaz I created one folder for colours and using it for labelling. Other materials I made at home and some of them I bought from my friend (who was selling materials, now she is not making). In worksheets also we can do more practice by using colourful printouts. Hope this video will help other kids and parents.   Regards Smrithy and Addu Teaching colour concepts I am using different objects, pictures and clothes to generalise. He is using Avaz to label colours. That you can see at the end. YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, Yesterday was a holiday for Addu. As usual I put full day schedule for him and was trying to engage him in house hold activities too. During fine motor activity time he took mutter from beans and then for dinner we used that mutter for mutter paneer curry. He fully enjoyed each step and it was a very good learning with different sensory experience. Addus cooking mutter paneer During fine motor activity time, he took mutter from beans and then for dinner we used that to make mutter paneer curry. He… YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, This is a small video presentation of my elder son Adhithya, about how he enjoyed his summer vacation with Addu.We got lots of ideas for sitting activities from this group and that also we included this year. When a family is working together, we all can enjoy each moment. Vacation activities with Adhithya My Son, Adhithya is a blessing for me. He takes cares of his brother Advaith very well. YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, Last week we took a break from the busy schedule and enjoyed our holidays in Poovar island with other family members. This was the second time I took him for the flight journey. Before we went to Abhudabi and it was a long flight. That was his first experience and he was restless after 2 hours but we managed to settle him. This time also I prepared him with pictures and words. We made a scrap book with step by step pictures and words.I was explaining him with that book before traveling and again showed it whenever he was confused. It was a big help to reduce his anxiety and he enjoyed the flight journey. While coming back IPad was not working, but he was happy and was enjoying with snacks and sight seeing.I hope this video will help other fellow parents. Regards Smithy Preparing for the flight journey Addu had high social anxiety and so I need to prepare him for the changes in his daily schedule. So I made a scrap book for… YOUTUBE.COM ...

Dear friends, Here I am sharing how I am teaching some simple but really important skills for their daily life.While doing these activities we are working on their sitting tolerance,focus and at the same time they are getting different sensory inputs( that itself is a reinforcer).Also we can work for the language with the same activities (full,empty,filling,close,open,cut).In this way they can relate it instead of rote learning.Fine motor skills are also improving by plucking leaves,cutting packets,closing bottles.This Activities are really interesting for the kids and lots of learning is happening in a fun way.yesterday I was thinking about some new Fine motor Activities and we did like this.I hope this video will help some fellow parents like me  Regards Addu,Aadi and Smrithy Learning some new skills for his daily life.Taking leaves from curry leaves, filling green gram bott YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, Understanding about numbers, number value and counting concept was too hard for my son. In the beginning he was crying and was restless while doing Maths. Then I tried different approaches to teach him number concepts other than rote learning.I was always trying to teach him how counting and number value can help him in his daily life. I used different situations, not only table top time or paper pencil worksheets. One parent asked me for a video of how to teach counting,I am sharing this video for her and for other parents Regards Addu and Smrithy Different approaches for teaching counting and number value I am using some Montessori materials, Avaz, objects that he is… YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, From the Google group of resources I took this simple reading comprehension passage and prepared a lesson plan according to my sons level of understanding and interests. For my son I am reading because he is nonverbal,if your child can read let them read. If you are giving choices they can answer meaningfully. There are lots of wonderful resources like this in the group for different levels. If we are customising it according to our kids learning style, kids can learn fast. Thank you so much dear  Swaminathan Rajan  sir,  Muthumari Selvakumar  and all other members who are uploading all these wonderful resources. It is a big help for me and Addu,at the same time I am sharing this to help other parents to give them ideas. Regards Addu and Smrithy Reading comprehension passage I took this Reading comprehension passage from the Google group of resources for autism and prepared a lesson plan for… YOUTUBE.COM

Dear Friends, I am Smrithy. My younger son is diagnosed with ADHD and autism.After diagnosis we did ABA and I was a cotherapist for him at home.He was attending ABA sessions for 2 hours from a center and I was training him at home with the same principles.Initially he responded very well with ABA and imitation and communication skills, body parts, common objects, function of objects,fruits, vegetables, vehicles, categorisation,shapes,colours, sorting...he learnt so fast in the training.But after 8 months,he started crying throughout the session.At that time,no one was able to work with him,other than me.we tried different therapy centers and at last we reached in a school, Bubbles,where they are following structured teaching method.Then I also joined to the one year diploma special education course for Autism.I did my practicals in my son's school and attend theory classes on Saturday.It was really difficult for me to complete that course, because too much assessments,record...