A Healthy Baby: A Brief Biography Of Adam Lanza

From the age of fifteen months through nineteen months Dominic’s physical, social, language and cognitive development has matured. Although Dominic’s physical development has matured, he is below the norms in fine motor development when he makes towers or puts together puzzles; His fine motor skills although match the norms (My Virtual Child). Socially, Dominic gets along with children well although he began to show separation anxiety around eighteen months. Along with the separation anxiety, he is securely attached to both parents yet he is less clingy and is interested in exploring (My Virtual Child). Dominic’s communication skills and language comprehension and production are typically developing. He uses the word me a lot and knows over 50 words which he puts into sentences such as “doggie outside” (My Virtual Child).

In Catherine Maurice’s novel “Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family’s Triumph Over Autism” Marc and Catherine Maurice are the parents of three children, two of which, Anne Marie and Michel, have autism, whereas the eldest of the three children, Daniel, does not. Catherine Maurice first had Daniel, and all was well with him, as it was for her second child, Anne Marie, at least for a little while. Between the time Anne Marie turned one and when she turned two, her parents started to notice some behaviors that were not normal, like repeating behaviors, or a lack of communication skills. They receive a diagnosis of autism for Anne Marie and their world is turned upside down. They go to a number of doctors and are presented with the same bleak outlook from each one. Catherine however decided to search for her own answers and discovers behavioral therapy, and hires a therapist named Bridget to work with Anne Marie. As well as Bridget, Catherine found a supporter of holding therapy, Dr. Welch. With intense training, Anne Marie begins to move away from some of her problem behaviors. At first, Catherine believed that Dr. Welch’s holding therapy was the answer, but she eventually realized that Dr. Welch was a self serving therapist that was more concerned with her own status. As things are finally beginning to improve for the family, Catherine starts to worry about her next child, Michel. At first, the concern level was relatively low due to the fact that Michel was more outgoing and

Based on the assessments, the Developmental Assessment of Young Children (DAYC-2) and the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills Revised (ABLLS-R), administered by the ASIP team in August 2015, Robert’s results reveal deficits within all developmental domains (i.e. Cognition, Communication, Social-Emotional, Physical Development and Adaptive Behavior). Furthermore, the DAYC-2 revealed that Robert functioned at the age of 9-21 months on all developmental domains. The ABLLS-R’s results revealed

Obiel Macedo, a one year and seven month old infant accomplished many tasks on the developmental checklist. I went to his house, his mother and baby sister were present while I was with him. We sat down and I handed the infant a small container filled with different size blocks. Immediately he grabbed the container, poured out the blocks and began to build a tower quickly. Once he was done creating the tower of blocks, a few seconds later he knocked it down vigorously and started all over again. Then, I handed him a red crayon and a blank sheet of paper, but instead of writing on the paper he went up to the wall and scribbles spontaneously.

The next year and a half he suffered from severe depression and attempted suicide twice by drug overdose. For the past six months he had been seeing a therapist at the university’s psychological services center regularly. Upon coming to see another therapist there was previous diagnoses made on Steven by a private therapist a little while back. Mr. and Mrs. V. felt the need that their son need to continue seeing a private therapist but he had stopped the therapy his junior year for unknown reasons. He had been seeing a psychotherapist since he attended kindergarten. He was very quiet, did not speak much and was unresponsive at times to the environment. His kindergarten school psychologist noted his actions and conditions to be autistic like. Mr. and Mrs. V. immediately hired a prominent child psychiatrist to work with him regularly and whom later denied him being autistic in any way but stated he would need intensive treatment for many years. Steven was

Her neuropsychological function were not able to process information as a typical person would. Other issue that Andrea faced at time was frustration due to not get proper help and support for her mental health issues. Given, the time period view on mental health, and the religious and societal views on what a mother should be we could see why Andrea engaged in her criminal behavior. She struggled thought it a lot, and regrettably ended up killing her children while in state where she lacked empathy. Although, now Andrea lives a left one could assume full of regret, she continues to speak out for mothers with postpartum depression. She and her husband have started a nonprofit to bring awareness to the issues, and Andrea sells homemade items from her mental health facility to help support the non -profit. Although, this was tragic Andrea is trying to raise awareness and prevent this type of thing from occurring again. Although, Andrea’s crime was horrible, and tragic one must look at the factors that impact her choice to participate in this activity. It’s unfortunate, that our mental health system wasn’t as supportive as it should have been. This crime thought made society take meatal health more seriously and the awareness of how to combat these

Speech, language and communication difficulties can have a profound and lasting effect on children’s lives and development. These can affect their ability to communicate and interact with others. The impact of these difficulties will vary depending on the severity of the problems, the support they receive, the demands of the child’s environment

One of the adults I worked with was Ben. Ben has severe apraxia, started speaking around the age of seven, and he is 23 years old. Some of the different exercises Ben did while I was there were matching with flash cards, he was given a pile of flashcards with labels on them and correlating pictures were spread out in front of him and he was asked to find the weights, so he had to find the picture which had the weights on it and so on. He also did an expressive drill for articulation. I noticed when he said one of his words ‘inventory’ he added an “a” at the end of it so it would be ‘inventorya’. The next thing Ben did was read books made by his Speech Language Pathologist from an app called Pictello. These books were made for him and they told about each of his jobs and what he did at those jobs. Ben has many jobs currently and has had a few different jobs in the past also. He works at the high school he attended and that is where I got to observe Ben also. Some of his jobs at the school include: washing

Sam is an adopted child. Quite early on his adoptive parents had concerns about his speech and language. They noticed he uses very few single words and is very reluctant to communicate with anyone. Initially they thought he is feeling shy or taking time to adjust to new environment but Sam started having more tantrums. They were worried about his communication and ability to cope at nursery school. He was referred to the Speech and Language Therapy Service when he was two years old.

M is a four-years-old boy who just graduated from prekindergarten. M has been diagnosed with a developmental delay of learning and he has an IEP. He received one on one SEIT and speech therapist services during the week. I interviewed M’s mother through the phone and we talked in Chinese because it is her home language.

Neurological systems were also evaluated to identify any existing health or comorbidities promptly and to utilize interventions such as referral to neurologists, ophthalmologists, or speech pathologists if necessary. Developmental red flags, in this case, would include the inability to understand the use of action words and being unable to follow two-step direction (Bellman et al., 2013). This would be indicative of receptive language delay. Expressive language delays are characterized by a child’s inability to ask for things by name, use no less than 200 words, or repeat phrases in response to questions (Stevenson & Richman, 2016). However, none of these red flags was reported by the child’s

It was an ordinary day when Peter Fredward Kanzaas lost what he loved most. The Canadian summer sun brightened up his kitchen making it hard to see some parts of the room due to the glare. This, however did cause Pete to notice that his special green bag with yellow patches on it had gone missing. Pete’s missing bag had contained his most prized possessions in life. His watch that he had won from the state fair, the belt buckle that he had taken from the rodeo, a pair of gold plated socks and his lucky bottle cap were all been stolen by a thief when he or she took that green bag. The backpack full of items was the only thing that made Pete wake up in the morning and when it was stolen, it was not an option to not find it. Peter had to get his possessions back even if it was the last thing he would do.

The B A.T. clinical team met Mikey’s mother, Susy on September 22nd , 2016. On this date the B.A.T. clinical team conducted an indirect functional assessment, which consisted of a parent interview and review of ABA services in relation to Mikey. The clinical team gathered information regarding Mikey’s history (as outlined in the above section) and inquired about the challenges they encounter, including any behaviors that are of concern. Mikey was also present in the home during this visit.

CAS is one of the most difficult disorders to diagnose. Many speech pathologists are worried that it is commonly over diagnosed and misdiagnosed (“Apraxia: Speech Therapy,” 2011). It is not known how many children actually have CAS, but it appears to be on the rise. Certain factors, such as increased awareness of CAS by professionals and families, evaluation and identification

Speech and language delays can be problematic for preschoolers, school aged children and adolescents. These delays range in degree of severity and have many causes; physical and developmentally. Communication plays a specific and important role to all people, especially, preschool children who are developing speech and language skills at fast rate. The consequences of these delays can be devastating for the children affected and can follow them into adulthood. These effects may include academic problems, social and emotional issues and may even lead into mental illness. Children with speech and language delays need professional intervention as young as possible. However even with intervention, some children are still at risk of suffering