Child Study - Educational Observation of Development of a 5th Grader

Ian is a 5 year old Caucasian male that exhibits average verbal skills, average cognitive skills, and appeared to be of average height and weight. When entering his assessment, it was noted that his clothing did not match, his hair was unkempt and his mother seemed frazzled at best.

SOCIAL HISTORY: He smokes two packs of cigarettes per day. He drinks a rare beer. He is divorced and lives alone. He is Protestant, has a 10th grade education, and works at Taylor Auto Body Repair.

By the time he was 10 Dayluis was far from the little boy who looked back at his mom to wonder if he was doing alright or that baby that started crying when I left the room. He became more autonomous and established healthy relationships with everyone in his life from teachers to classmates. At this age he has a best friend among a larger group of friends that he enjoys hanging out with. As he is going to progress from elementary to middle school he has concerns about some things he’s heard the bigger boys do to the smaller ones like put them in trash cans. With my assurance and eventual experience, he realized his concerns were unfunded and does well with the transition into middle school. One thing that is most definitely new is Dayluis’ interest in girls, this leads him to want to dress “cool” and care more about his appearance, he does chores around the house to be able to buy clothes he likes and expresses interest in video games with racy images of women. Additionally, he starts to lack confidence in himself when it comes to doing well in school. Growing up he was always an intelligent child that performed adobe average in most school subjects, as he matured cognitively he became increasingly smarter and

His rebellious side may be the worst part of his problem. He doesn't care about school friends his future, nothing. He never really looks into his future. He runs away from school and lives off of a couple of buck and blows it on boo’s. He tell the doctor how he doesn't know if he's going to apply himself when he gets out of the hospital still being immature. He doesn't try and rejects the help that his parents are giving him through the hospital by not taking it serious. He does seem hopeful about getting out even though he doesn't know exactly when that is

Josh is a 27-year-old male who was previously engage to be married. Josh currently resides with his parents due to a recent traumatic event. There is unknown history of any mental illnesses diagnosed. Before the traumatic event occurred, Josh enjoyed life. He was involved in many activities and had full time employment.

7-14 years --- By this stage, children have stable friendships, enthusiasm when given areas of responsibility and clear different activities between boys and girls.

| |2. Vygotsky’s theory believed that economic and cultural forces were very influential in child development. |

I begin observing Faith Sanchez a six-year-old, who is in the first grade at Emerson Elementary School on November 7, 2017 over the course of three days. The observation took place at the child’s home, where we had access to the materials needed for the different set of skills that I would be conducting during the observational period. The reason for observing Faith was to see if her Physical, Cognitive and Psychosocial domains are developing at the average range for a school age child or if she was showing signs of atypical development.

Observer visited a play place of a restaurant in New Jersey, Hackensack. Why I have chosen the place is easy to observe every part of child development such as cognitive, social emotional, language as well as physical at the same time. Observer performed the observation on April 28 from 1 pm to 3pm. The child was an Asian boy. He has strait short black hair with dark brown eyes and thin black eye brows. His height looked around 37 inches that he may be a little smaller than other early childhood children. He looks thin and has a full set of teeth inside his mouth, full cheeks, and a small button nose.

He/she may have a strong sense of identity, but its for the wrong age group, which may be why he/she may have feelings of Isolation. The important event of the stage of development I think he/she is going through is Love Relationships. Now even though he/she may be struggling with this problem of his stage development now, I feel he/she will overcome it since he/she is very young for this stage of

In this assignment I am going to describe a child observation that I have done in a nursery for twenty minutes in a play setting. I will explain the strengths and weaknesses of naturalistic observation through the key developmental milestones based in Mary Sheridan (2005) check-list and provide a theoretical explanation to support the naturalistic observation.

For this research project, I chose to interview my very own daughter (Alaina). She is a 7-year-old first grader who lives with her mother full-time. She has one older sister who lives in another state. Alaina is an active and inquisitive young lady. She attends year-round schooling and in her free time, she participates in Tae Kwon Do and basketball.

My client, whom I will call “Jay,” is an eight-year-old, African-American boy, who was referred to our agency by his mother who wanted him to get “any services he could get for free.” He has some emotional and behavioral deficiencies, and does not handle stress well. He has frequent outbursts in class, and reacts without thinking. He needs to work on his interaction skills, and develop strategies that will help him use his words instead of physical reactions when he is frustrated. Because his trigger is frustration, he needs to learn to respond in a positive manner to his peers and teachers. Also, “Jay” needs to learn how to think and act independently.

"Ever since I was a child, I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one 's potential"(Bruce Lee). I think this quote pertains greatly to how children grow up. The Assignment purpose was to observe a child between the ages of 2 and 16. Human Development is important because it shows what you can identify. For example, if there is anything wrong with your child or if your child is more developed than others. Plus, there is so much that you can learn from observing the child from how they react in their environment and around people. If you know what to look for in human develop it greatly helps in knowing what to do with a child when you least expect it.

Compare and contrast a child from younger age group with a child from an older age group.