Special Back-to-Back Celebration: Autism, UN Day and Halloween  

It was a culminasting activity of my kids for the first half of the school year. They had their week's break too. Thanks for sharing your kids and family's experience with halloween-- your big house ahlloween party!

hi doryvien,

Thanks for your continuous support as my friend and colleague. Thanks for being happy and proud of me always as a special mom of my dear precious sons.

How about red and ram, how did they celebrate the halloween?

Well not the very Halloween-ish type of observance. Remember there was a very strong typhoon on the day before that, so even when I watched 2 horror movies on TV that night I was still more scared of the strong winds brought about by the typhoon. I was so afraid the whole village will be flooded again(oh, no, not again). Thanks God on the day of the Halloween the sun smiled at all of us. We took advantage of the good weather, went out and watched the movie Astroboy.

...at least you have the feel of the halloween via watching horror movies and bringing your sons to the movie house thanks to santi for leaving our country soon that families enjoyed the long weekend together. thanks mama!

That's fun! what was your kid's costume? i know your kid enjoyed the two day halloween celebration. Thanks for sharing MJ.

LOL. She was Hannah Montana, minus the wig after about five minutes. LOL My son was a white tiger. He acted like he loved his costume. On sunday, he was trying to go trick or treating again. I think he just liked walking around.

that's so cute of your kids... how i wish we had the same thing too this year. but we really are in crisis so we just enjoy the halloween without wearing any costume but still it was fun with all the candies that we got.

Your kid has all the energy to have that walk and enjoy halloween candies.

LOL. I wish I had half the energy my kids do. LOL My daughter loves trick or treating. I think it was wonderful that she got a chance to go. I think this year my son was "old" enough mentally to start seeing it.

why? how old is your son? i wish to have that much energy too so that i can go with the flow---ALWAYS! they're so hyper!

My son is 4 and 1/2. His mind is around a two year olds.

Ah ok. thanks for sharing. How old was he when he was diagnosed?

I tried to get him diagnosed at two, but the doctors wanted to wait until he was three. As a parent, that seems like forever when you KNOW something is wrong.

my eldest son was diagnosed at the age 2 1/2 years old but we were advised for a conformation test at the age of 4. we did. he was confirmed to be in the autism spectrum--mild autism but his delay is more on speech unlike my youngest son.

Bless your heart, hugs to you. My son is diagnosed with classic autism and is in need of all the therapies. He is okay though, so don't feel bad about him. The gross motor skills are okay, but the fine motor skills need lots of work. He can't pick up puzzle pieces yet, but he's getting there.

I asked the doctor worse case scenario. He wouldn't give me one. He did tell me that he expects my son to start showing violent tendencies. If he means temper tantrums yeah he's there. LOL What I think he meant was hitting others to get what he wants or just to show frustration when they don't understand. Luckily, we don't have that type of issue.

I told my husband I am going to work out as our son gets older, just so I can always handle him. LOL

Thanks for sharing your story with me. I will keep it in my heart and will be more inspired by it as i continue to take care to and provide all the support for my two kids with special needs. We are both lucky for having a loving and supportive husbands too.

Thanks for the best response.

Yesterday I met a lady who armed me with enough information about IEP's that I am sure my son will get more help. I am so hopeful. I will let you know how the meeting goes. Do you have this in the phillipines?

yes we have IEPs. we review and revised or enhanced it every quarter. this program is very helpful. user friendly that you can easily see you son's development, strengths and areas for improvement. great that you have yours too. goodluck you and your baby.

Our IEP is yearly unless you request one sooner. I had no idea you could even request one. I had been trying to get one because I wanted to get more speech therapy for him. Once I got an outside speech therapist, low and behold, the school wants to have an IEP now. I hope it's coincedence that we are having one after they know I learned about them.

that's good. we have the general IEP for a year but is revised and enhanced on a quarterly basis depending on the response of the kid. that's good. good luck. i hope you will get the best one for your baby.

Now that I know I can revise it at anytime and that they have to give me most of what I ask for, I am headed over the top, so I can "settle" for what I really want.

yes you can. we have monthly meetings for updates. we have a daily notebook of what happened in the session. i gave my feedback so that's how tedious is the interaction with the teacher--with the team. so, we are on top of everything for our kids. go ahead friend!

I just found out that is the way it is supposed to be here. I guess they thought if they didn't make the information available, noone would look. LOL I can honestly say, I wouldn't have looked except the speech therapist I got outside of school told me the school should be giving him more services and asked to see his IEP. She looked at it and then told me what needed to be done. That was so nice of her.

You were very lucky to find that speech therapist!

I agree with that. No one would have ever told me that he was entitled to more.

both my sons are autistic. the eldest is still in SPED program and my youngest is in his first year of the mainstreaming program. they're in one school but with different types of intervention. but during school programs SPED is mixed with the mainstream and regular class. they have their respective numbers and presentations. I was really teary-eyed how they excellently made it the program. I am really proud of my sons.

Yes it's two different days... October 29 for the school and October 30- for the mall!

Ah, ok. I wasn't sure if you'd mentioned this before. There are a few people in myLot I have communicated with who have autistic children.

i did friend. actually that's my first ever topic or discussion in mylot entitled special...kids special mom... with part 2 discussion about their development.

Just this morning they had the half-year's recognition...both of them received special awards!

That is so awesome!

another accomplishment friend...we just arrived from the kids fieldtrip and they behaved so well. we visited the manila ocean park and the ark avilon. they were exposed to sea creatures and land-based animals. it was tiring but we had lots of fun!

Have they always been so well behaved? Was it difficult for them starting school?

We experienced the same thing too with parents who's kids are about to start to school with all those tantrums and cries. It took us a month for the eldest to be comfortable in school and a week for the youngest.

The eldest was diagnosed at 2.5 years old and was confirmed at 4 years old. since the first diagnosed, he had an early intervention where we enrolled him in SPED school and provided all the therapies that he needs. He has speech delay but and manifesting lots of autism symptoms like flapping, hyper, no fear, etc... but was able to develop lots of lifeskills as he grow. Now he is 13 years old still having difficulty with speech but can express himself. if you're not able to understand him he will spell it out for you.

My youngest is doing well in his first year under the mainstream program.

It's great that he can spell things out when you can't understand him. It sounds as though both of your sons are doing quite well.

yes Canellita, they are doing their best to communicate and be understood. they have their unique way of handling things to express their thoughts and feelings. thanks god they are full of energy to learn and integrate learnings and put it into action.

That's great! More students should be like them!

Hi Sunny friend,

Thanks for taking your time to respond on here.

Everyone is welcome to comment on even single like you or no experience yet to be a parent. Yes i am so happy and proud of my kids. They're extremely great!