From Denise: on new reinforcers and Faith's changes
Hi Kin Mun, Ginny, Wan Hua and Wan Ying -
Thank you all for the recent updates about Faith's progress. It was very heartening to read. I was away this past week, so have only just found some time to reply/comment.
Could I suggest that a regular Reinforcer Assessment be conducted to keep track of changes in Faith's preferences here? This is particularly important if the school teachers are noticing that certain variables are losing their "pull" on her motivation(s) to sit, attend and work.
The changes that you are observing in her "profile" of learning and relating with the environment seem to tally also with the fact that she is able to withstand kinesthetic activities better. Perhaps you could re-look "sit-&-bounce" balls, balls with bumps and other textures, inflatables (from sports shops), and on a smaller scale, feathers, kiddy pipe-cleaners (with their ends shaved down), etc.
Kin Mun & Ginny any chance that the four of you could spend a weekend at Sentosa or one of Singapore¹s coastlines together? There are lots of activities that the children might really enjoy doing: sitting in kiddy-chairs attached to bicycles that you can cycle up and down the beach, walking on sand/grass, playing in water with a variety of floaties (eg. long "noodles' or little water-beds), sitting in buses (including the open-air kind on the second deck), sitting in the beach train that goes "choo-choo" up and down the shore-line (Sentosa), traversing the suspension bridge (Palawan Beach, Sentosa), riding on a horse/carriage (Sentosa Ranch), playing in fountains... In fact, you should try and catch the upcoming long weekend to try and accomplish all of this!
Thank you all again. Keep up the great work!
Denise
Thank you all for the recent updates about Faith's progress. It was very heartening to read. I was away this past week, so have only just found some time to reply/comment.
Could I suggest that a regular Reinforcer Assessment be conducted to keep track of changes in Faith's preferences here? This is particularly important if the school teachers are noticing that certain variables are losing their "pull" on her motivation(s) to sit, attend and work.
The changes that you are observing in her "profile" of learning and relating with the environment seem to tally also with the fact that she is able to withstand kinesthetic activities better. Perhaps you could re-look "sit-&-bounce" balls, balls with bumps and other textures, inflatables (from sports shops), and on a smaller scale, feathers, kiddy pipe-cleaners (with their ends shaved down), etc.
Kin Mun & Ginny any chance that the four of you could spend a weekend at Sentosa or one of Singapore¹s coastlines together? There are lots of activities that the children might really enjoy doing: sitting in kiddy-chairs attached to bicycles that you can cycle up and down the beach, walking on sand/grass, playing in water with a variety of floaties (eg. long "noodles' or little water-beds), sitting in buses (including the open-air kind on the second deck), sitting in the beach train that goes "choo-choo" up and down the shore-line (Sentosa), traversing the suspension bridge (Palawan Beach, Sentosa), riding on a horse/carriage (Sentosa Ranch), playing in fountains... In fact, you should try and catch the upcoming long weekend to try and accomplish all of this!
Thank you all again. Keep up the great work!
Denise
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