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Hi Lycheema,
I was in similar situation as yourself couple years back. My son was comparatively better in English than Chinese at the age of 3 year old, just comparatively because he was able to understand and spoke some english but chinese was mostly echolia. We got so worried and wanted to switched him from local kinder to ESF TY, we rejected ESF TY after we spoke with his local kinder principal for we felt the school care so much about him. At 3.2 year old we took him for an assessment, he was assessed to be 1.5 year behind in speech, autistic features and borderline developement delay.
We immediately switch to single language environment, focusing on his cantonese, though we knew his english was better but due to lack of environment support (our friends/neighbors, playgroups were cantonese speakers) we decided to abondan english. It was the right move for us as together with 1) caring and extra help for his kinder teachers/principal 2) EETC training 3) family support he improve drastically. At age 4.8 months old we took him for a formal IQ and Autism test, he score fairly high on Standford Binet assessment and for was diagnose to have no autism.
At age of 5.2 year old, he almost caught with his peer group in terms of language development and he loves reading both chinese and english, he can read and understand most of the chinese characters, but english is very so so. His english listening is okay but reading is still oxford stage 1/2, but i am happy because he enjoy reading both english and chinese books. We originally also planned to put him in international school (coz we feel local stream enforce too much dictation and homework), but we changed our mind because we like him to know more chinese. We chose an interactive local stream primary school for him.
Perhaps you can take him for an speech assesment to understand how much he's delay and also consider switching to single language environement whether it be english or chinese.
Last but not least, I must praise you for your decision of quitting your job to spend more time with him, it will make a world of difference! A mother's time is way more effective than flash cards, english dvds and computer games. This is from my own experience after switching part-time! |
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