Cognitive Disorders: A Case Study

“Oral language is a skill that is acquired naturally by the young. The importance of its development in early childhood cannot be overemphasised. It underpins the whole scope of learning and is employed to question, to seek information and to proffer ideas. A child who has a well – grounded ability in oral language will usually be nicely poised to cope with reading and writing. Anyone who lacks this will be at a disadvantage.” (J.Fellowes & G.Oakley, 2010, pp4) It is a vital component of every human beings life as it is a means of communication and interaction with their family, friends and

Identify and describe the different strategies and targets that can support children and young people’s speech, language and communication needs.

Communication and speech development: this is learning to communicate with friends, family and all others.

The level of a child’s communication skills can have an effect on most areas of development. If a child is struggling with communication and language they

In this essay I will be talking about speech, language and communication skills and how they affect several areas of development. I will talk about the impact of speech, language and communication (SLC) difficulties and how adults can support children and extend their SLC. I will also talk about the positive effects of adult support and the different levels of speech and language between children entering an early year’s provision.

But “if there is a difficulty understanding what people say, difficulty speaking or forming sounds or words and using language in appropriate social contexts then this can affect a child’s behaviour and emotional development”. (Speech, Language Communication Action Plan 2011)

There are a number of protective factors to help women cope with their experiences. The most basic protective factor is seeking out and receiving help from professionals because from there, the woman can figure out her own protective factors and what works best for her. Weiss and DeBarber talks about how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a therapy to provide because it offers different steps to help the person. The first step is to identify the persons internal/external resources, the second step is to help the woman recall and process traumatic memories, the third step is to reconstruct cognitive thinking and the final step is how to manage anxiety, (2013, p. 44). This therapy is a protective factor because the woman is seeking help and realized she needed someone but it can also be seen as an unprotected factor because the client needs to remember and basically relive what happened to her and this can cause the client a lot of stress, anxiety and it may cause her not to return to continue therapy.

First let me say that I would not stereotype my patient due to has advanced age by assuming that he might have some cognitive deficit. The technique that I use to assesses a patients understand of instructions is to tell them that I am checking on how well the physicians gave their instructions. This technique serves two purposes it hopefully helps prevent the patient from feeling embarrassed, and secondly it demonstrates their level of understanding of the instructions. In this case, if during to course of my assessment I had a concern about my patient's cognitive status I might want to perform a Mini-Cog exam to assess further my patients needs. If I discover that he, in fact, had a deficit, I would immediately report it to the physician because they might want to do further assessments and possible interventions such as an OT referral and possible pharmacological interventions.

To conclude, I have found Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to be the most appealing intervention strategy to use with April since she has anxiety. There are several reasons why I feel this approach is preferential. One, it was a problem solving approach that allowed April to examine how her irrational thoughts about driving contributed to her anxiety, and how her behavior and reaction being in the car would trigger her anxiety. This allowed her to become aware of the problem and helped her come to a realization that her thoughts affect the way she feels and by altering the negative thinking pattern, it can create a realistic thinking pattern. Two, by collaborating we came up with different strategies for challenging her negative thoughts. Even

During session Kenia was provided a contact call with his sponsor (cousin). Prior to call minor was asked about his adjustment to placement for which he stated that everything was going normal. When asked what she did in order to better cope with her current situation minor reported that getting along with his peers, praying/reading the bible, speaking to his family during the week, and focusing on her studies helped her better manage his current situation. Cognitive therapy was implemented to encourage minor to continue to focus on the positive aspects of her situation instead of reflecting about not yet being with her sponsor. Minor's conversation with his sponsor was observed to be positive and interactive. Sponsor was able to show minor

Cognitive behavioral therapy believes that root of psychological problems is the wrong interpretation that people make such as faulty thinking, making incorrect decision, failing to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Cognitive therapy thinks that the way Henry feel and behave is influenced by how he perceives the structure of his experience. Individuals usually keep their central ideas about themselves, their world, and their future. A primary focus of cognitive therapy is to assist clients in examining and restructuring their core beliefs. By motivating and encouraging clients to gather and examining empirical evidences about themselves, therapist can help the client change their mood and behavior. CT would say that Henry has Arbitrary

The behavior of those that are diagnosed with STPD can fluctuate depending on rigorousness of the symptoms. Schizotypal individuals are often highly creative (Miller 540). An STPD individual may not be able to communicate ideas in a correct manner yet the ideas agree with the arrangement, producing strange communication patterns. Unfitting or confined affect may be exhibited through grinning and happiness in sad situations. A major element in distinguishing individuals with STPD from other Schizo disorders is their desire for relationships (DSM-IV). They long for close personal relationships, yet feel great anxiety in social situations. They have struggle relating to and communicating with other people, causing them to become very remote.

Cognitive therapy will help Pat to change the way she act and think about herself negatively. She will be able to reduce negative thoughts about losing jobs and gain ability to aid in socializing with others, though positive thinking and action. Help Pat to think positive about quitting smoking, and have a positive outlook on being alive. Cognitive therapy can motive Pat’s to express her thoughts and feelings, as well as , help her to set goals to change her environment.

Oliver, Crayton, Holland, and Hall (2000), states that scrutiny is prone to the relationship between hereditary determinants, natural markers, and decrease in particular psychological areas, there is plainly a requirement for integral exploration in which specialists consider the effect of subjective decay on the individual, parental figures, and administrations. This combined study looks at the challenges connected with assessing individual decrease within the sight of a previous worldwide intellectual debilitation, which have been talked about in more detail somewhere else. This is essentially connected with floor impacts in testing and the variability in the level of prior psychological hindrance in grown-ups who have Down disorder.

The Speech and Hearing Science class taught me many things about child communication and language development. Before taking this class, I thought they language development is just a simple and natural thing to happen to people; however, I realized there can so much steps and facts involved with the language development and communication. I learned that even though every child develops their communication and language differently through different sources, every child is mainly influenced by the nature, the environment. My cousin who is married and has a baby contacted me for a help on his twenty months old son, Tam, in developing his language skills. I am more than willing to help my cousin by guiding him in helping Tam develop language skills that my cousin desires through the knowledge that I have obtained through taking this class, SHS 120.