In an evening spent at a local park‚ I observed two toddlers playing on the playground. Both toddlers were about the same size and height‚ and they were seemingly about two years of age. These two children stood out to me because though they seemed about the same age‚ their behavior on the playground was very different. As I observed‚ both subtle and large differences began to make themselves apparent. One of the toddlers‚ a male‚ was playing on the equipment with a male caregiver. While he was
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Each child develops in his or her own ways and that is acceptable. Ann seemed to have a stronger sense of development in some areas over others. Beyond the milestones listed in the back of the textbook‚ Ann relates to what we discussed in class thus far this semester from chapters eleven and twelve. I noticed a secular trend in physical growth amongst her and her siblings. In the house‚ there is pictures of her parents and her grandma when they were all much
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According to Piaget Cognitive Development Theory (Berk‚ 2003‚ p.133)‚ this child is in the preoperational stage (2-7 years)‚ and he behaves normally. When the father left he was upset. His mother asked him to sit still in one of the chairs. He was lying in an arm chair‚ moving his legs up and down. Then he put his feet on the armrest of the chair next to him‚ where his sister was sitting. He repeated this behavior several times in attempt to hit his sister. That made his mother tell him off. However
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children for a total of one hour in their home. The observation occurred on March 15th‚2017‚ this started at approximately 2:00 PM ending at 3:00 PM. The main focuses of my observation tool place in their living room as well as their play room. Most of the time their mom was in the room with us‚ but during the times when she was absent‚ the children’s oldest sister‚ age 16‚ was in the room as well. Some factors that may have influenced my observations would be the fact that the kids were on
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Laura Taylor Paul Kincs Child and Adolescent Psych 26 April 2010 Child Observation This time‚ I decided to observe children between the ages of five and six in a kindergarten class room at Maddock Public School. Maddock is a smaller school and there were only five children in the class‚ all of them were boys. I knew this would be an interesting day‚ because we learned in class that boys tend to be a little bit more active and disobedient‚ but I was definitely looking forward to it. I went
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The child I observed is a 5-year-old Caucasian boy. He has blonde hair and is about the same height and size of the other children in the preschool classroom. During the time I observed the children were engaged in self-selected activities that were set up around the room. The boy I watched spent his time engaging in play with a light table that was filled with knot sand and plastic bugs. The children used magnifying glasses to look at the materials that filled the table. The purpose of time sampling
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Play Observation Kiahi a boy of about 3 years old was playing alone stood on a small hill of dirt ‚ at first it looked like her was just looking at the other kids play. When I kept looking at him to see if he was just going to continue to doing nothing‚ but watch the other children I noticed that he was standing there like a solider tall and with determination on his face. With his hand to his forehead looking about as the other children ran around. After a while I see that he is pointing to his
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REMEMBER: To use pseudonym (not real name) Age of *Child (ren): 3 Sex of Child (ren): male Section One: Little “Bob” walks across the classroom and grabs the peg board. He then sits down in the chair at the left corner of the table. He puts every blue circle peg in its place‚ then he places two of the dark green pegs‚ then all of the yellow triangles‚ then three of the red square pegs‚ then the last rectangular peg and finally the last square peg. He then leans against the
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then went on to ask each child what they would like to paint. All the children suggested they wanted to paint a castle‚ apart from child C who wanted to paint a picture of his family. I then asked each child what colour paper they would like to paint on and they all shouted “Blue” at me. I asked each child to pick the sizes of the paint brush they would like to paint with‚ as I went around all the children took a large paint brush and left me with four small brushes. Child C was very upset because
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excellent examples of possible ways to integrate the child’s personal interests into what needs to be targeted for sessions. So‚ if a child needs to increase their verbal output with regards to nouns‚ then I could focus on utterances that emphasize the use of nouns as a direct example to the child. Some examples provided: “Brrrr puzzle. Brrrrmmm Car.” If the child needs to focus more on verbs then the language model could be: “push. Slide. Point‚ push.” This emphasizes the use of the nouns or verbs
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