Chapter 4: Findings From the frustrations I saw on Calvin’s mother, I decided to help this poor mother and son. It boosts up my desire to assist, guide and teach Calvin, six years old boy that being diagnosed with autism and slightly hyperactive. The wonderful part of Calvin is that he able to read text, paragraph without understanding the text. He has a very strong foundation in recognizing words. Calvin’s abilities in doing well the three languages subjects had minimize the hurdles in guiding him in learning. Therefore, I need to take care of his mathematics and science learning for a period of time.
Even though Calvin has the limitation in communicating with others and also hardly to answer the questions, but there is an improvement …show more content…
I left only another one and half month to ensure Calvin able to perform addition and subtraction. The one to one session not strictly stick to 30 minutes each session as it influenced by Calvin’s mood. I remembered there was an incident happened to Calvin on 7th July 2015, his mother was preparing porridge for him to be taken during the breakfast and lunch time. This was the first time I notice that his mother prepared non regular food to him and it was going to be another hard time for Calvin. During the breakfast time at 10 o’clock, Calvin refused to eat the porridge prepared by the mother. Meanwhile, he was showing tantrums by screaming, crying, rolling on the floor to protest that he did not want the …show more content…
Calvin had no problem in recognizing his peer’s name, just he does not know how to interact with his peers. Therefore, every time for the circle time, the teacher would sit beside Calvin and encouraged him to interact with his peers. For the beginning, Calvin did by forced but after a period of time, he started to interact with peers even though not much he talked.
I encouraged the rest of the children to be friend with Calvin, his classmates Amanda Chua and Jia Hao helped me a lot in engaging Calvin into the group activities and also classroom activities. I purposely arranged Amanda and Jia Hao to sit beside Calvin in the class so that these two kids can guide Calvin when necessary. It is important for Calvin to feel a part of his classroom community. Hence, we purposely created the weekly duty roster for six years old class. Each of them will be assign with a job such as rubbing the whiteboard, swapping the floor, arranging the tables and chairs, throwing the trash in weekly basic. Calvin involved in the job and he enjoyed with rubbing the whiteboard the most. I want Calvin to experience what had been experienced by the other
Even though Calvin has the limitation in communicating with others and also hardly to answer the questions, but there is an improvement …show more content…
I left only another one and half month to ensure Calvin able to perform addition and subtraction. The one to one session not strictly stick to 30 minutes each session as it influenced by Calvin’s mood. I remembered there was an incident happened to Calvin on 7th July 2015, his mother was preparing porridge for him to be taken during the breakfast and lunch time. This was the first time I notice that his mother prepared non regular food to him and it was going to be another hard time for Calvin. During the breakfast time at 10 o’clock, Calvin refused to eat the porridge prepared by the mother. Meanwhile, he was showing tantrums by screaming, crying, rolling on the floor to protest that he did not want the …show more content…
Calvin had no problem in recognizing his peer’s name, just he does not know how to interact with his peers. Therefore, every time for the circle time, the teacher would sit beside Calvin and encouraged him to interact with his peers. For the beginning, Calvin did by forced but after a period of time, he started to interact with peers even though not much he talked.
I encouraged the rest of the children to be friend with Calvin, his classmates Amanda Chua and Jia Hao helped me a lot in engaging Calvin into the group activities and also classroom activities. I purposely arranged Amanda and Jia Hao to sit beside Calvin in the class so that these two kids can guide Calvin when necessary. It is important for Calvin to feel a part of his classroom community. Hence, we purposely created the weekly duty roster for six years old class. Each of them will be assign with a job such as rubbing the whiteboard, swapping the floor, arranging the tables and chairs, throwing the trash in weekly basic. Calvin involved in the job and he enjoyed with rubbing the whiteboard the most. I want Calvin to experience what had been experienced by the other