Two "wow" moments over Zane
Slowly and surely, Zane has been making progress in acquiring peer and sibling awareness skill.I have never known that peer (or sibling) awareness does not come naturally for a special needs child (ASD for short) until I have one.
To an ASD child, another peer or sibling can be non existent. Meaning, he may not see the other child like himself, a person, or is someone he can interact with. An ASD child is very much in his own world most of the time.
Recent months, Zane has been having more eye contacts with Zoe and his classmates.
Let me share some incidents which caused me to "wow" over him the last few weeks.
1. His teacher, Mrs Chandra, related to me an incident in school.
Zane, on his own initiative, went up to a classmate, held that classmate's hands and jumped with joy. That classmate naturally joined him in the jumping happily. This was Zane's very first time initiating "play". Though it lasted for only a few seconds, I am glad that Mrs Chandra caught that kodak moment scene.
2. Usually, when 3 of us have to take a bus, if we can't get a long stretch of (sideway facing) seats, it will either be Zoe and Zane will sit together on a double seat and I'll stand next to them, or I'll sit with Zane and Zoe will sit on a separate seat. Just now, it was this latter arrangement.
To my surprise and pleasure, Zane turned back (our seats are back to back), held Zoe's hand and motioned to Zoe to come to the front and sit with us. Zoe politely declined Zane by saying, "I'm ok sitting by myself, Zane, don't worry." Zane persisted a second time, this time he tapped on Zoe's head. Hahaha ..... I had a hard time persuading Zane to give up, yeah !
I stroke Zane's head again and again, told him many times over, "Thank you for loving jie jie. Jie jie loves you too, Zane."
Love,
Jesselyn Ng
posted by Jesselyn Ng @ 5:07 PM
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