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  • Literal Mind

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    Raiyan wanted me to put on his new Transformers DVD (which has now taken over Dinasours as his new interest) into my laptop. I was ONLY trying to impress him with my new Macbook Pro which has a CD slot where you just put the DVD in and it automatically [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:27am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Indistinguishable?

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    Okay, now that I've gotten that confessional side of me out of the way, I shall just dive in and inform all of you on how Raiyan is doing. Raiyan is doing absolutely great!! Jeff and I attended a parent-teacher meeting thingy about 3 weeks back and after our initial apprehension of' [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:18am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Why I have not written more

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    I just don't understand why it is so difficult for me to update this blog more frequently. Sometimes I aspire to write a post much like how I used to write them a long time ago - a post that specifically focuses on one topic but of course with much' [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:39am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Listening and looking... again.. and again...

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    Time flies so fast these days and I really can't believe I haven't posted about Raiyan for almost a month! This post is definitely long overdue so I thought I'd just sit myself down finally and update all my readers about Raiyan's progress. Overall, Raiyan has been doing well. In school,' [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 1:47am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • What did you do in school today Raiyan?

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    Finally, Raiyan is starting to be able to tell us what he does in the school day. All this time, it was soooo difficult to elicit any type of response whenever I asked him simply "what did you do in school today Raiyan?". I soon realised that my question was [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 12:45am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Good Idea Raiyan!

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    Raiyan has begun to notice the roadkills we often see on the road and is getting especially worried about having to see quite a few in just one week. So yesterday, he turned around and asked me,"Is there no traffic lights for animals? Like for people to cross the streets?" [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 4:47am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Fake Raiyan?

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    Over the holidays, we have been trying to widen Raiyan's interests beyond just his obsessions with dinasours and animals, as we kept telling him that not everyone are into those things as much as he does and if he wants to keep a conversation with other children, he needs to [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 8:04pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Countdown to school

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    Raiyan is starting Year 2 (!!) in a few days time and similar to what we did last year, with it being a whole new classroom and a new teacher, we brought him round to school about a week earlier to do an advanced going around to familiarise himself with [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 9:35am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Updates, after what felt like an eternity!

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    I've been whisked away to the other side of the world for work purposes, yet again, for the past five weeks and naturally have not been closely following Raiyan's ABA programme, which I feel so very guilty about. As guilty as I am about having neglected this blog for more' [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Bye Bye Tantrums

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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 9:11am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Raiyan and friends

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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 9:19pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Can't Argue With Raiyan

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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Raiyan's first visit to the dentist

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    I had a dentist appointment today so babah and I thought that it's high time that Raiyan starts getting his teeth checked too since he's very closely approaching the big boy age of six! Obviously before the therapy we couldn't imagine bringing him near one- this coming from the fact' [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 11:04am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Raiyan the Explorer

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    This was Raiyan as a dinasour explorer during his school's annual storybook day when students dress up as their favourite book characters. ( Remember last year he came as Mucky Ducky?)For this year we sort of found out about the day in the last minute so babah didn't really have' [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 10:26am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Dinasour Board Game

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    This is Raiyan's board game that he made himself! I especially love the part where you move back spaces when you're near T-Rex and move forward when you're near the baby dinasour. When I asked him why Raiyan said 'because the baby dino is cute!'Oh and of course I was [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 10:22am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Breaking an autism myth

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    When I first started learning about autism, one of the things I had read was that autistic persons are not able to profess their love to others in words. Surprisingly, I had accepted that “fact” because at that point I was just content to have Raiyan just talk anyway, so [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 8:22pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Autism, we need to talk…

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    Lately I’ve been feeling kinda guilty about not paying as much attention as I should to autism. I haven’t been as diligent with Raiyan’s programme, I clearly have not been as frequent with updating this blog, I’m so behind in reading other blogs on autism, I haven’t even touched a [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Happy News!

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    After exactly 17 months of therapy under Kerri's supervision, I was just beyond ecstatic to be told and confirmed by Kerri that Raiyan's "basic language" is in place. This means that from a place where he was completely unable to converse and was only communicating his needs with hand leading, [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 8:58pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Animal Instinct?

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    Raiyan is currently on a school trip to Bandar and I just received an sms text from Jo saying:"Can't believe your child - came into the library in Bandar for a toilet break, found the animal books within 2 minutes! Has he been here before?:-)"The library in Bandar is our' [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 10:32pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Birthday Parties

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    I used to really dread birthday parties. We started going to them when Raiyan was around 2 and a half years and these were parties of my friends’ children meaning Raiyan wouldn’t be particularly be familiar with the birthday kid (as opposed to a cousin or a classmate from school).Even [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 2:27am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • On Hiatus

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    I know this blog has been very inactive for a very long time and I have to apologise to any avid readers who do happen to miss Raiyan - well at least one of them voiced their feelings out to me today so I'm not completely perasan! So this is' [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 7:38am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Visit to the Fish Market

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    Raiyan came along to the Jerudong wet market this morning (and Alisha too! hehe nothing like menyakaikan drg awal2!) and not only was Raiyan really good for getting over his fear of walking on wet surfaces, he thoroughly enjoyed himself going round the stalls and identifying the types of fishes [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 8:33am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Reasonings

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    This is really, really tricky for Raiyan to say the least. His progress in this past year had us appreciate any answer he would give us, regardless if it is correct or not, because this means that he can actually respond back to us and this could hopefully be the [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 3:52am EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Out of the Box

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    A known trait of autism is the relative lack of imagination and this rang true with Raiyan, as everything he knows and thereupon communicates are derived only from things he himself has seen, observed and learnt and not from what he has thought of himself. The rigidity trait would often [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 10:08pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Let It Flow

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    This was Raiyan last Sunday at Muara Beach Playground making friends with this boy who he just met and who I'm pretty sure did not speak English very well and yet, they played together and clearly enjoyed each other's company for at least half an hour- and also despite Raiyan's [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Being Social

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    As some of my followers would know by now, one of my biggest worries is the idea of Raiyan not mixing in well in class or when being around other kids in general. This concern was especially heightened when he had such a rocky start to the school year with [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 10:09am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Golden Points

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    Jo first told me about the token system she's been doing with Raiyan and she also asked Dr. Lee during the seminar if it’s an acceptable thing to do. We were glad to hear that he did think that it is useful as a positive reinforcer for desirable behavior that [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 8:42pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Non Compliance

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    Having our child not following what we say or do what we tell them is indeed one of the biggest challenges us parents face in raising our children. Usually we would tend to just blame the child for being stubborn, lazy, annoying and basically non-compliant. However with Raiyan, especially in [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 7:46pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Give us a clue

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    Part of Raiyan’s programme recently was for Raiyan to tell us why something is what he thinks it is. For example, when shown a picture of a “cowboy” and if Raiyan himself thinks it is a cowboy, he has to tell us why he thinks it is a cowboy, which [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 8:15pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • $Money Money Money$

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    We have started to get Raiyan acquainted with MONEY! Oc course following the basic principles of ABA, everything we try to instil needs to be broken down into very small and easy to follow steps so for now we are only familiarising him with 1 cents and 5 cents coins. [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2009, 11:08pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Dinner Table Battles

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    I have mentioned before how difficult it is to get Raiyan to finish eating his meals and to stay at the dinner table throughout. I tried to use 30 minutes of TV as a reward for finishing his meals but after a while, its effectiveness receded as we still had [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2009, 11:45am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • I'm Back!

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    Finally, things are starting to wind down and our family is beginning to go back to a "relatively" normal life after such a busy two months since the start of the year.. As for me, I have finally gone on my first work overseas trip which has afforded me with [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Looooverrrlllyyy!!

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    Okay, it's been an emotionally charged day for me so far with the article being out in the papers but insyaAllah, I hope I'd be able to reach out to some parents who can relate and can help start their journey to recovery for their child. Amin. With me being [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2009, 1:51am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Busy Busy Busy

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    I have seriously been feeling so unsettled for not having updated this blog in quite a while. There has just been so many other things floating around that has caught more of my attention and just sorting through and prioritising all of these affairs took up so much of my [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Raiyan Social Update

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    Okay enough of all these deep shcmaltz I’ve been composing of late and high time we start talking about pweshes Raiyan again! Sorry to have not updated on his progress specifically in so long. I had actually planned to do a 2008 round up which basically summarizes all of his [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 3:15am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • The Journey Continues

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    At the dawn of the New Year, I was at one point contemplating changing the direction of this blog to focus more on just the therapy, the society and our relationship with the school and not so much on personal stories about Raiyan (you know entries like “Bossy Boy” and [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2009, 9:06pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • ICC Consumer Fair Pictures

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    These are the pics of our pweshes booth that I took last night!That's my dear hubby trying to set up the umbrella.. This is our recyclable tote bag (this one was made around last year and somehow since we were such novices at the time, the Learning Ladders logo is' [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 9:08pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • ICC Consumer Fair

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    Just a quick info that learning ladders has its own booth at the ICC consumer fair and we are selling awesome goodies like thermos, pens, highlighters,umbrellas, t-shirts, notebook with matching pens and tote bags.Funny story was that we ONLY just got the goodies this morning so we were actually planning [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 8:08am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • 2009- Bidding adieu to troubled thoughts

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    This past year I have learnt so much and Alhamdulillah some lingering insecurities about my knowledge on autism and how to handle it have been replaced with a renewed confidence in my own personal beliefs in how to best raise Raiyan and help him handle his autism.Even though admittedly I’ve [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2009, 9:54pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Meet Mini Raiyan-

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    Posted: December 29, 2008, 8:04pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Chubby!

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    This is Raiyan doing "chubby" boy - it's something that I taught him which an old darling friend taught me back in college hehe.. Kakak Shayeen, if you're reading this, it's especially for you! Thanks for teaching me this cute thang.. everybody loves to watch Raiyan doing this!' [...]
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    Posted: December 26, 2008, 12:08am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • What's YOUR autistic thing?

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    As I think I might have mentioned on here or on pweshes diaries, my one "thing" that you could call bordering on an autistic trait because it's something that uniquely bothers me and not so much others, is hating to see different play-doh colours being mixed up.I think that's probably [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2008, 10:15pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Bossy boy

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    Raiyan has always been so demanding and if he wants something, he’ll always insist to have it there and then and until he gets whatever it is he wants, he will continue to repeat his demands over and over and over again until it’s met.. regardless of how busy the [...]
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    Posted: December 22, 2008, 8:11pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Locked In

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    In our old house, it was a habit to never hang the door key on the door for fear that Raiyan may lock himself in the room but is unable to unlock it back. Our door style both in the old house and the new house has the lock looking [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2008, 6:35am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • It could also be a....

    Number of comments: 6
    Raiyan’s present programme is seeing him traverse into the world of social language that requires more imagination and lateral thinking so you can imagine it’s been really challenging. So much so that Jo the great has specifically asked for help in generalizing one aspect of the programme- which is making [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2008, 11:49pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Overworked

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    This is poor Raiyan asleep halfway through us doing the listening activity together. In all fairness to him, he just had a 2 hour ABA session with Jo in the late morning and here I was still trying to make him do more stuff.. As you can see on the [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2008, 2:38am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Can you handle the truth?

    Number of comments: 6
    Raiyan's into his "difficult to eat" phase again and a few days ago he still went on with the pahlaver that his stomach was full and that he had a stomach ache so that's why he couldn't eat his meals. It became so dramatic that he would gag and then [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2008, 7:36pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Rampai Pagi Interview

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    Linda has just uploaded the Rampai Pagi interview on to the Learning Ladders blog here for those who either missed it or was not able to watch it. And just in case you can't quite catch what we are saying, there is a slideshow summarising all the points made on [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2008, 4:23am EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Helloo.. whoops, who are you?

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    This one morning when I was dropping Raiyan off from school, I saw from afar this woman who I swore I thought was Jo but upon closer inspection realised it wasn't. It's just that she had the same blonde bob hairstyle, was wearing a pink top and khaki skirt that [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2008, 11:10pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama

  • Ignoyed no more

    Number of comments: 4
    I got left some interesting comments from my earlier post about the abovementioned “emotion” and after much reflection and consideration, I have come to realize that it is in fact unfair for me to expect others to even watch the shows let alone give any feedback on them.It’s all down [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2008, 10:51pm EST
    by Pweshes Mama
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