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I’m glad to hear your grandson is doing better. What do you do in multisensory?
In sensory room there is a big room ful of cushins .There is a swing and he jumps into a box full of plastic balls,there is a tunel with small light in .turning colours.there is like a hammerok and he gets in it and turn around. then I take him in a white room and in all white cushions .hamerrok ,there is like tube bubbles going up,and water matresses,when I take the day after he is calm ,in the same area then i take him 2 hr in the pool.the first thing that helped jake .when I brought him and they anilized that he was autistic he was like a cabbage. no emtoins always looking sad and worried.now he looks happy and he smiles although he does not speak yet when he smiles like telling me keep going nanna
Hi Jake,
Sorry if I may sound indiscreet… but by any chance are you maltese? cause the multisensory room and white room you described are exactly the ones my son goes to!! Now I know that most multisensory rooms are similar giving that they serve the same purpose, but the one you described sound sooo similar!! 
Yes Iam yesterday i did the social story that I uploaded and even before he went to sleep i showed it to him .His coach driver name is cancu and when i told him cancu came he realy giggled.We see now tomorrow before we walk to the coach i show it again .it is realy working on him.The first day he went to school he was in tantrum from 8 till noon .Infact even the fac worried and we where going to ask for help . good night .
Hi Jake
I’ve a son with special needs, his condition is very similar to Down Syndrome in terms of motor skill development but yet has the behavioural issues similar to Austistic kids.
we started to do Glenn Doman with IAHP (australia) when he is 10 mth old. He is coming to 5 yrs old soon. We started flashing cards, sensory input, eye tracking exercises, patterning, etc.
On top of it I showed him the Signing Time CDs as well. I started PECS (Picture Exchange Communication) when he is 18 months old. Initially he uses a lot of signing to communicate to us as he has no speech yet. But gradually as his motor skills improved, he is able to reach out to his PECs card to let us know the things he wanted.
From the Glenn Doman programme it has helped him :
to focus, to start crawlling, creeping and walking, stimulate his senses
From Signing time he learnt :
all his alphabets, colors, animals, signing for milk, water etc
I’ve slowly fade out these as he is slowly able to speak now and I’ve started to embark on another method called ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis)
ABA is known to work very well with Autistickids. You may want to GOOGLE on it and read more about it.
Best regards
hi justus, thank for your information, Ihave tried to begin the packs but it was in the last month of School and had no help to contiue .Besides he had changed his facilitater at school 3 times as she was pregnant and had her maternity leave.hope this year we get settled and start again.about that program you told me to seach on google can you tell me the site I ask for. thanks for your help .
Hi Jake you may want to try to go to this site :
http://home.gci.net/~featak/introduction_aba.htm.
Cheers
Hi everyone!
good to hear someone else is from the island!! You’re the first maltese to meet here at Brillkids! Justus is right about ABA technique, I came across it when reading a fiction book based on a true story. The name of the book is: ‘Daniel isn’t Talking’ and it is about an autistic boy, how he got diagnosed, the effect on his family, especially hhis parents, and how by time he got better and better until h started to talk… very interesting to read.
Have agood week everyone! My son starts school tomorrow, 
hopefully he’ll get used to it soon.
Khloe xx
thanks to you all . Now I 'll see if I can find it from library .Last week I borrowed one and its name is :I am not nauthy Iam autistic . it is about a boy that wrote it himself with the help of his mum . Iread it in one day . It is almost like my grandson .He used to talk and play and giggle .All of a sudden he was like a leave no emoitions just looking worried and cries.reading these kind of books motivate me to contue maybe he will talk again .thanks to all.
Hi there to all of you!!
How r u all doing? My son is doing great at school, this year he is really enjoying it and he seems more integrated than last year. obviously I’mvery pleased with this improvement. How is your grand child doing Jake?
I’m really interested in the Glenn Doman approach. did it work for your son justus? is it very intensive? I’m especially interested in the ‘petterning’ but the problem is that you need commitment from other people as well giving that you can’t be on your own to do it. how does it work out for you?
Have a good week everyone
Khloe - Have you heard of patterning machine’s? I saw a video somewhere but can not find it, but I did find a picture of one. This one does not look to have as good of design, but I’m know I’ve seen another model somewhere. I liked the other model a lot better. One person was able to move a lever to make it work while the child just lay on it. It allowed the child to have a completely passive role. K has developed a very good cross pattern crawl so I quit looking into it. I don’t know if this one is any good but here is the link.
Hope it helps. You could try googling it. I’ll keep looking & let you know if I find the other one.
Hi Khloe,
sorry for the late reply, just went for a holiday with the family. We have 3 people doing the patterning. We did it 6 times a day, seven times a week. That is during the time when he was still not crawling and creeping. We have one person hold the head and the other two persons on the hand and legs at each side. You are right that it needs a lot of commitment from the family members. But the benefits are excellent. Once we did that for a week, we saw our son starting to crawl. (Glenn Doman’s definition for being on the floor tummy down). Within half a year or so, he started to creep (tummy up). My son, crawls and creeps a lot for the first 2 years. He only started to walk when he is 2.5 years old. Patterning does not only helps with the motor skills, it also allows a child to have a good visual image, speech, brain development etc.
I only have limited experience in this, but I must say it is very importment for our brain injured child as well as kids that do not start creeping and crawling early.
My 3rd child is a bit delayed and did not crawl/creep at 6mths so i started to pattern her as well and leave her on the floor. At 7 mths, she can creep (tummy up) the house, says ma ma, pa pa etc.
So I believe pattterning is good.
you may want to refer to this site for more information,. http://www.iahp.org/
best regards
Khloe - I forgot to add that the patterning machines can allow 1 person to pattern the child by themself.
Hi Jake is getting settled at school . They gave more time to play for now and Igo for him 1 hr before .He is having again his routine and it is working .
Glad to hear Jake is settling in! 
Hello everyone,
I am happy to find I am not alone on the site. My baby girl is 1 1/2 and has the DS. She started creeping (had problems in accepting the idea of doing it) for about two month, pulls to stand but doesn’t really show signs of expressing her needs. She’s more likely to try and fulfill them herself. I am taking her to occupational therapy, to kinetotherapy and to a baby swimmingpool. I have been fascinated by the Doman ideas and am really interestested in putting them at work. Though, I am Romanian and don’t have anyone to talk about. That is why it feels so good that I got in touch with you all. How are your kids? From what I guess, Kay is almost the same age as my Erin.
I don’t have too much time right now but I couldn’t resist to say hello. I’ll be in touch soon.
All the best.
Luana 
Hi Luana!
It’s great to hear from you, & yes our girls are very close in age!
It sounds like you are doing well for therapy. K gets occupational/ physical & speech therapy, but she only goes once every month or two, so I have been very thankful to discover Doman & then Brill Baby.
I have been doing some Doman since Kay was about 6 months old. She started crawling quite early ( 8 months) and I think it was partly due to using a crawling track. She started creeping at 12 months but didn’t do it consistantly until about 14 months. She can walk holding one hand, but I think she is quite a ways from independant walking yet. I’m really trying to get more consistant & organized because I’m sure it would help her even more.
doesn't really show signs of expressing her needsDo you mean with words? K says a few sounds eg: uh for up, but not clear words. We have been using baby signs with her. Have you tried that?
I think it is a good sign that she tries to fulfill her own needs. A little independance will be helpful in the future.
This is the only place I have to talk to anyone also. I do talk with my husband but anyone else would think I am crazy.
Chat with you soon!
can somebody give his idea about giving ratlin to children .She said to calm him and consentrate .I did not like the idea as every medicine has side effects.He is passing in a time to run out of class.When he is home and i tell him to sit doun to do his homework he goes byhimself to bring the pencil and he is trying to write.
when i was in school i voluntered one of my studdy hours to help the special needs childeren they used tons of flash cards and similar programs with the kids they seemed to like it and responded very well to the programs i was with these kids from 6th grade till graduation it was very rewarding and i loved being with them just remeber they are kids that are able to express them selves diferently and may have some dificullty in doing some projects so just be patient and do get flustered.