since end last week, stephen is down with fever and diarragne. doctor confirmed that it is not HFM. so we are waiting for the recovery. haven't been able to do much of the intervention during the school holiday too as deborah needed the attention.

some areas noticable are words "up and down". the has been clear as often as we play the throwing of pillow. just the the "dowm" has recently sound more like "town".

on play doo, we notice that he is able to decern which box it is placed in. even when we change the position of the box, he will usually be able to pick it in one search. interestingly the pictures on the boxes are similar, only different in colour tone. that's quite smart right? i tried more on passing the play doo items to him instead on him taking by himself and this is working out find. the intention is to interact, as well as pull his waiting skill and turn taking, which he need to work on.

one of the day, i played throwing of rings with him. he was able to follow the movement of the ring going up and down. when i throw it to him, he will throw it back as he didn't want it. when the ring hit my leg, i "cried in pain" and he laugh heartyly. (wicked boy). whanted to video it but when i got the video, he was so excited about it that we missed the previous scene.

2 imp finding during this peroid of his sickness.
whenever i does sponging for him, or feed him the medication. he will say "go away" very clearly with emotion and kick me (don't think the kicking is part of autism, should do some charactor training soon.)this is now extended to whenever i gets near him. i will have to rebuild father-son relationship when he gets well.

some of the nights, he will also be awake and talk. and mind you, we really think that he is talking sense and in context. of course only he knows the context. he will talk from loud to soft and high to low pitch and with body laugange. not the staring in the air talking he often use to do. we can also hear his 1-20 count in it. guess it is similar to hui ping experience on the puppet play. it was so loud that i ask him to soften down and he did. surprise!

we feel that he really kind of understand what we say many a times (better comprehension. even when we talk about his medication, he will get angry. interesting. btw, the only kind on medication he will take easily will be those that are tastly, colourless and textualess and can dissolve in water. so keep a look out for us. any others, he will create a powerful "mouth fountain"



on the school side, they are working with him on using pictures to communicate (PECS) as well as a structure way of work system (teacch). will share more in our next meeting.