My 40 Year Old Child

Her kindergarten teacher recognized her inability to stay focused compared to her peers. In first grade, Grace took longer to complete assignments, had a tendency to daydream, and had difficulty with paper and pencil tasks which was the most noticable in math. Her first and second grade teachers provided her with additional educational support through small group instruction, and she receives weekly instruction from the reading specialist. Finally, her scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition and Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement show she has deficits in the areas of Working Memory, Passage Comprehension and Math Fluency. Since information has been obtained by a variety of dependable sources, identifying Grace as a learning disable child is

The childhood development of the individual followed the normal development patterns that are expected. In the childhood stage the individual development changed rapidly and their ability to be active and learn new skills improves on a daily basis. During childhood a child will grow steadier compared to an infant. A child’s body and organs size grows at a steady pace. By the age of 6 a child’s head will be 90% of a full adult size even though the rest of a child’s body has a lot more to grow and to develop. Until a child reaches late childhood, and entering adolescence, an individual’s reproductive organs are still not fully developed. Infants and children can suffer from delayed development. This could cause potential effects

Kayden is a four (4) year old Caucasian male currently residing in Modesto, California. Kayden was born on November 28, 2011 in Modesto, California. Kayden has not experienced any major illnesses or surgeries in lifetime, has no allergies to medication, but has seasonal pollen allergies. Kayden is on target with physical development (scoring in the ninety-five percentile for his age group per his father). Kayden’s mother and father are both very healthy, though high blood pressure and cholesterol run in his father’s family. Kayden’s mother and father both have vision issues and wear glasses so there is a possibility for vision issues, though he does not show any signs of problems currently. A strength in this area would be his family history being void of any major disease of illness, and a barrier of this could be his vision issues. These factors did not influence the developmental assessment.

As Joclyn grew to the age of two years old she began to move on foot. Trying to walk was a struggle for her. Joclyn’s toys were spread all around her room, so when she waddled in there she tumbled over a little bike. Joclyn hit her face on the wheel of the bike and it left a cut. After it healed up, a scare was left on the right side of her eye. But her left eye was not left untouched. When she started to walk faster

Kathy Goebel is a 16.2 year old English speaking female, who lives with her parents and two sisters. According to Mrs. Goebel (Kathy’s mother), she had normal pregnancy and delivery with Kathy, weighing 8 pounds and 6 ounces. Mrs. Goebel claimed Kathy met all of her developmental milestones such as walking, talking, and toileting within the expected times. Mr. Goebel (Kathy’s father) and Kathy were involved in a car accident when Kathy was 8 years old. Due to the accident, Kathy fractured two ribs and sustained a closed head injury. Mr. Goebel and Mrs. Goebel both believe Kathy’s communication impairment may be due to the closed head injury from the car accident.

In the novel Out of my Mind by Sharon M. Draper, an eleven-year-old girl identified as Melody Brooks has a photographic memory, which is a side effect of cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a disease where you can't move, write, and most importantly, talk.. Eventually throughout the book Melody overcomes her fears and matures enough to accept that she is her own person. Melody is a bright girl, who has cerebral palsy, but when she gets a device that allows her to articulate, she changes the way other people perceive her. Throughout the most important weeks for Melody, she excels and matures for the most important event yet. She proves herself smart enough when she gets onto the Whiz kids team, but will she be able to help the team win the finals?

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.

As many children of the United States of America have the pleasure of growing up as normally as possible, starting with learning how to interact with other children, build relationships with other people, and the ability to horse around on the playscape; however, some children do not have that privilege. At a young age, ten years old, Bailey had physical problems such as joint pain, frequent infections including disseminated infection and pneumonia and easy bleeding, which were all signs leading to a disease that changed her life forever. Nights were filled with sweaty sheets, days were shared with unbearable pains and just when she was about to give up all hope of true happiness, the brother that she was never close to finally connected with

Hannah should continue to learn about her low vision, colorblindness, visual field loss and difficulty transitioning from outdoor light to indoor light and how it impacts her learning and social interactions. Knowing this can help her with self-advocacy and awareness of appropriate accommodations and with knowing when to ask from them.

In 2006 a young and slightly theatrical Julianna Klimeck was begrudgingly brought to the hospital after two days of incessantly bellyaching that her right eye was bothering her. Soon after, her parents, who had originally only made the trip in a desperate attempt to silence their often-overdramatic little girl’s conniption, were horrified to find out that their 8 year old had sliced her cornea. If they had thought their daughter’s “tantrum” before was unbearable, nothing could prepare them for the hysterics she would burst into when the ophthalmologist walked into the emergency room and announced that there was a fair chance that she could go blind in her right eye permanently.

One of the new concepts included cortical blindness which is caused by “damage to primary visual cortex” (Block, 2010). This was interesting because people, in general, believe blindness is caused by trauma to the eyes, not many take in to account the occipital lobe. According to Gabby’s parents, she can see light therefore, there is some parts of her occipital lobe still functioning properly. In Jeffrey’s case, doctors were able to predict chromosome translocation as the culprit for his slow growth.

Ms. H grew up in a rural community in the Midwest. Her parents are married and live in a state in the Midwest. She is the fourth child of five siblings. She has three sisters and one brother. According to her mother, Ms. H was born at home. During the birth, her parents believe that Ms. H may have had a short period of anoxia or a lack of oxygen supply to her body. Despite of a difficult delivery and home birth, Ms. H did not have any prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal problems. Her parents reported that Ms. H had normal developmental milestones in language (e.g., speaking forming a sentence, and vocabulary development) and physical motor development (e.g., crawling, standing up, walking and running). However, her parents noted that Ms. H had

Already, thousands of genes have been identified, including those involved in hundreds of diseases, such as cystic fibrosis; Duchene muscular dystrophy; Huntington disease; Marfan syndrome; heart, digestive, blood, eye, and nervous system abnormalities; and many forms of cancer (Berk, 2014, p.57). However, if Olivia (3-1) is a disability child, it could be so hard to attend this preschool. First, there is no room for a wheelchair. There is no road for disability people, so it is impossible to go in to the classroom. All of the play that observed cannot be play by a disability child, because majority of the plays contains lots of body work. It is so cruelty and sad.

Noah and Alexis Beery are 14 year old twins that were diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Alexis’s case was more severe than Noah’s. Alexis got worse at the age of 5. She started

“The youngest child gets everything.” I could not agree any less with this phrase when I was the youngest in my family. Every child would know the kind of ‘power’ their younger sibling has over them. Therefore, I am guilty of taking advantage of this privilege against my older brother and sister. To begin with, I purposely placed both of them in trouble whenever they made me cry or whenever they don’t obey what I want them to do. In short, I was very spoiled and stubborn child, but nevertheless, I treasured those moments where I was always their center of attention. That was before my parents told me that I was going to have a younger sister.