Child/Family Observation Paper Sarah Walker Morgan O’Leary PSYC 2103: Human Growth and Development October 13‚ 2011 AM Introduction This paper is a child/family observation and assessment of a child in the life-span development stage of early childhood‚ so between the ages of 2-6. In the early childhood stage‚ children are entering the “play” years. They have vivid imaginations and rapid growth in language and cognitive development. Observation in the assessment of a child is very important
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IntroductionVictoria was born on May 9‚ 2009 at 6:32pm. She is three-fourths Italian and one-fourth Puerto Rican. She is an only child and has few friends her age outside of her daycare that she plays with. Her mother and father are now both living in the same home as Victoria after recently being separated and sharing custody for almost eight months. She seems to really enjoy having both of her parents in the home at the same time. Victoria has a one year old dog whose name is ’’Marley’’ and she
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A Child Observation Assignment By Hafiz Zeeshan Ahmed Date Posted: December 22nd This article was written by Hafiz Zeeshan Ahmed in 2013 as a record of her child observation assignment for his Psychological Research course at Federal Urdu University Arts‚ Science & Technology (Abdul Haq Campus). When submitting it article Hafiz Zeeshan wrote remarked that when completing this assignment he was taken "back to my early days in the 2000’s when I did have what now seems the luxury of reflecting
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children it is important that we understand their development. Children develop in an individual way and at varying rates. There are various stages of development such as physical‚ cognitive‚ linguistic‚ spiritual‚ social and emotional. They all are equally important and all have an impact on each other. I’m going to talk through and give you a brief description of some of the areas of development. Physical development refers to the development of large muscles also known as gross motor and small
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combination of inert traits and physical attributes intertwined with physical growth and environmental adaptation. Natural cognitive development and language development have a great impact on the development of the person and their identity. Inherited traits physical and psychological are also major components of the evolution of the entire person. An example of this type of interaction between inert and adaptive traits can be witnessed in the maturation and development of my cousin who was developmentally
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Creativity is a key aspect of children’s development; it is highly related to one of the specific areas of development in the EYFS known as Expressive Arts and Design (although it does interlink with all the others). “Expressive Arts and Design involves enabling children to explore and play with a range of media and materials as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts‚ ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art‚ music‚ movement‚ dance‚ role play
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1.1 Child Observation Summary Sheet . Assessment Information Personal details 1) Childs Name X 2) Age 12 months 3) Gender Male 4) Disability None 5) Ethnic Origin Indian 6) Religion Hindu 7) Class Middle Ethical Considerations in undertaking the observation I explained the purpose of the observation to the mother and advised her that she and the child had a choice to withdraw at any time. I also confirmed their personal details shall remain
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Running head: CHILD OBSERVATION � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Child Observation Jacqueline Ortiz BSHS 361 - Child Development Instructor: Michael M. Rogers University of Phoenix‚ Pasadena‚ California � CHILD OBSERVATION The child that I observed was an 18-month old boy that I will refer to as James. James is an active child who loves to interact with all his family members. His parents are married and live in a small city in Orange County. He comes from a middle class family which consists of
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Effect of Toys on Child Development The types of toys children play with can affect how they develop. Toys can help or hinder a child’s development in intelligence‚ social skills and personality. Certain characteristics may be genetically entwined in a human being‚ but some characteristics and behaviors can be learned‚ from parents‚ surroundings‚ and the toys with which a youngster plays. Elise Moore‚ author of “How Do Toys Aid Development”‚ stated “if play is the work of the child‚ toys are the child’s
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The eight category statements of the Group Development Observation System (GDOS) are dependency‚ counter dependency‚ fight‚ flight‚ pairing‚ counter pairing‚ work‚ and unscorable (Griffith & Dunham‚ 2015). These statements are key to have good verbal communication within a group to avoid any misunderstandings that could lead to a failure of the end goals. With so many different personalities within a group‚ one or more of these categories seems to fit in every group. Dependency is not to confront
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