My Special Journey with Advaith

Recently I attended a workshop on "Work placement and challenges around it"by Dr. Shobha Srinath (Retd. Child Psychiatrist from NIMHANS) at Bubbles. Bubbles periodically organises different workshops and training sessions by subject matter experts in various fields. I would try and attend all workshops and this enhanced my learning. I would take down notes and after the workshop, I would try and put my new learnings to use the very same day. Merely attending workshops is no t going to help us if we do not use what we learn to teach our kids. In this workshop, Dr. Shobha addressed the prerequisites for work placement. According to her, these include communication skills, daily life skills, emotional regulations, using skills meaningfully.. the list starts from these basic skills.. As parents, we have to give primary focus to the above skills.. I am sharing it here for my fellow parents.. Dr. Shobha mentioned that, if your child knows how to read, teach him to read and foll...

A documentary about Addu in a French channel.A French Reporter Mr. Jean barrere came to meet us and spent one day with us. He did a great job. They did this story as a part of Autism awareness in their country. I am sharing this proud moment of our's with all of you!! https://www.arte.tv/…/08…/portrait-d-enfant-advaith-en-inde/

For most of our kids transitions are difficult and so anxiety will shoot up. First day of vacation itself I was ready with schedules and activities. So the transition was easy. We can prepare a schedule according to the kids level of understanding. Schedules will help kids to understand the beginning and end of the day and what will happen next and how long they have to do each activity and the kids will be motivated to communicate if they wants to make changes in the schedule.We can use schedules and visuals to prepare them if there are changes in the daily routine. Most of our kids don't know what to do if they are getting lots of free time and that's why unwanted behaviours shooting up during holidays. If we are planning a proper program including physical activities, self help skills, sensory activities, skill training, academics, Play skills and visiting shops and restaurants (for social skills), we can enjoy our holidays. These are some of the activities we are doing at...

Prerequisites for learning singular plural concepts are identification of nouns including common objects, fruits, vegetables, vehicles and animals. For teaching concepts, we used to start with objects. So that the child can understand clearly. Step1: Introducing singular plural concepts using objects.  I collected some objects like spoons, glass, pen, balls etc that is easily available at home. You can see the video of how I taught him the concepts u sing objects. https://youtu.be/bWVMbAWPYvo Step2: Singular plural concepts in the picture level  Make some flash cards that the child can understand easily and use it. The flash cards should be according to the kids level of understanding . I bought these flash cards from Sutradhar,in Bangalore. You can make your own materials by selecting pictures from Google Images. You can see the video of how I taught him these concepts in the picture level. https://youtu.be/K2wuErle4MA Step3: Singular plural concepts in...