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January 13, 2012 7:49 AM Lisalt 1 views This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
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Making descriptions - December 20, 2011 9:44 AM Lisalt 6 views This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
How do humpback whales eat? December 16, 2011 1:35 PM Lisalt 8 views This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Cooking pork sinigang; cutting the long beans - December 13, 2011 1:12 PM Lisalt 7 views This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Cooking pork sinigang; cutting the eggplant December 13, 2011 1:16 PM Lisalt 4 views This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Telling about fossil fuels - December 13, 2011 12:11 PM Lisalt 2 views This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Axell's 5th visit to the dentist - 12/10/2011 (autism) Lisalt 235 views This is the 5th and last visit to the dentist. His next visit is in April 2012 for cleaning. His mouth has been sanitized finally (just kidding)! During this visit the dent...
Axell's visit to the optometrist - December 8, 2011 3:07 PM (autism) Lisalt 12 views He has astigmatism. I think, it runs in the family. He has been wearing glasses since he was 6 years old. He cooperated well just like he cooperated well with his visit...

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It was initially difficult to accept the label of autism for our son because both of us had been achievers in school. We hold undergraduate and graduate degrees from the topmost universities in our respective countries. U.P. is in the topmost universities all over the world. However, we know that all hurdles can be surpassed no matter what. And here we are...

We are a family of five. Our first born, Axell, was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years of age (August 2004). His tests were all negative. He developed normally. I can remember a time when he was asking, "What's dish? (What's this?)." After 18 months, he simply did not talk at all. He has some words (erratic in talking) but is not conversational like normal kids. He had helped himself in different ways since he has learned that some things done over and over can bring boredom. He stopped lining things up when he was four years of age. He stopped watching his favorite movies (over and over and over...) unless he has some moves or phrases to imitate.
In April 2007 (5 yrs and 8 months old), he began to have echolalia. It was so nice to hear him repeat commands or words or simple phrases. In September 2007 (6 years and 1 month), we were able to ask him simple questions but sometimes we have to supply the answer and he will say it. We teach him after school and the rest of the day, he can do whatever he wants like play videogames, open and read books, watch his favorite movie, listen to children's songs and Enya (Yes, Enya!) and among others. The boy loves challenges and it is really important that he must be motivated to participate as he gets bored easily.
Intensive teaching started in Dec 2006 during his vacation time. I do not accept the label of autism with this boy because he is just delayed in speech but his mind functions well. His improvement in speech became noticeable in September 2007 as we have aforementioned. We took videos beginning in Jan 2007. He was only given speech therapy for two months and the insurance did not cover such treatment.
Axell has made such great progress in Math because we have focused on that area since December 2006. The previous schools have not done anything to help him in Math. At present, we are fast-tracking and working hard to help him in Reading/Language. Comprehension is a real daunting task but I think, he is slowly achieving something.
(An update: His newest psychological report suggests that he has normal cognitive skills. This means, the boy is thinking and can think. He may not process things that fast to put into words (as he started talking back in April 2007) but he can think like I have been telling the other schools (However, no one believed as they think that he is stupid although they have not said that exactly but from countless meetings/conferences, one can infer...). He has been mainstreamed in Math in his present school since the start of SY2008-09. His Math teacher wrote in his classwork that some kids in her class are still in 2-digit addition with regrouping. Axell's classwork has been modified to 3-digit addition with regrouping.
(Update: He can read much, much better now even with 3-syllable words since the start of 2009. However, we are still working on the comprehension and sentence formulation.)

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