I dream that my special son Carlo, in the autistic spectrum of development, will grow to be a fine young man, able to pursue his love for music and computer. He would love to perform. He imitates often the concert artists he sees on TV, with headphone and holding a wireless mic. He learns to sing first before he learns to speak. Now he is beginning to read by reading titles of songs he loves, eventually the lyrics, I guess. That's him on the computer this recent weekend.
It all began with the song "Little Prayer." He fell in love with it and came to love many songs afterwards, like "Highway Blues," Beethoven's "Symphony" and many others from Alicia Keys, The Corrs,Tata Young, and Raymond Lauchengo (particularly "Farewell" and "Saan Darating ang Umaga").
As the family budget cannot afford yet to send him to SPED (special education) school which is beyond our financial means, we do our best to support his learning through the computer, DVD, music; allowing him freedom of movement, independent learning (he wants to explore and discover things for himself, so that his reverse engineering technique had left us with a few broken VCD players, casette recorders, VHS player,lots of walkman radios, and Kodak instamatic camera) and making him feel loved (by trying our best not to scream at him but explaining gently that what he does is wrong or bad-- "masama!"; and providing him with his favorite meals such as ice cream, Yakult, and apple for breakfast, corned beef or fried chicken for lunch, pizza or spaghetti with lots of hotdogs for snacks until early evening, fruits soda, chilled water, fruit juices).
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