The Denver Developmental Screening Test was a test created at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver. The test is an assessment for examining children from birth-6years of age as to their developmental progress. For newborns the test could detect neurologic problem. For infants this test often serves to reassure parents or to identify the nature of problems early enough to treat them. For children in late childhood, testing can help delineate academic and social problems. I interviewed my cousin who is 9 months old. The test was done at 6pm at her house, in her playroom. They live in Bloomsburg and I spent about 5 hours there but the test only took about one hour.
When I first got there it took her a while to get used to me. I
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The next item on the list was to see if she could wave bye bye. So I asked her mom if she would mind leaving the room and I tried to get her to wave bye bye to her mom but she refused to and just stared at her mom. Her mom told me that she does wave bye bye so instead of sending her mom out, I pretended like I was leaving and she finally did wave bye bye. Around her age about 70% of the kids can wave bye bye. I think at first she was hesitant because she was waving bye bye to her mom but when her mom asked her to wave bye bye to me she did not hesitate to put her hand in the air and wave it like her mom was doing. The next item on the assessment was to play pat-a-cake. She has never played before according to her mom so when I was showing her how to play she was very reluctant on trying. About less than 50% of children can play pat-a-cake but I think it was just out of her comfort zone. The next activity was to bang 2 cubes held in her hand, and she absolutely loved this. Not only could she hold the cubes in her hand and bang them but she would start to giggle and laugh every time they made a clanking noise. More than 50% of children can do this so once again she fell right back
The professional text that someone in my field would use is the ASQ-3. The ASQ-3 Ages & Stages Questionnaires is designed to screen children’s developmental performance that must be completed by the parents. It is a series of 21 questions with questions ranging in the areas from communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social skills specifically for 36 month to 38 month old toddlers. For the communication section, an example of a question asks is “When you ask your child to point to her ears, feet, hair, eyes, and nose, does she correctly point to at least seven body parts?”. In the gross motor section, a question ask “Does your child jump with both feet leaving the floor at the same time?”. A fine motor question that was asked was, “When drawing, does your child hold a pencil between her thumb and fingers like an adult does?”. The parent filling the questionnaire would bubble either yes, sometimes or not yet. There are 6 questions in each are
My observation was an hour and fifteen minutes long. This is an at- home facility, she takes care of kids of all ages, day and night. She separated the children by age group, allowing infants/ young toddlers to be together and older toddlers to be with the bigger age kids. She has a room in her house designated for play. In the room, she has a painting station, a reading area, a doll house and kitchen station for play. I arrived when they were in play time. She explained to me that she allows the children to play 1 hour each day so that they can express their creative minds and so that they are cognitively
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The Behavioral Assessment System for Children, Second Edition was written by Cecil R. Reynolds and Randy W. Kamphaus. The BASC-2 was published in 2004 by Pearson. The manual is currently priced at $102 and can be purchased online. The BASC-2 is qualified under level B. This means that it may be purchased by an individual with a master’s degree in psychology, education, occupational therapy, social work, or any field closely related to assessment and formal training it the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation. AN individual who has certification in a professional organization that requires training and experience in the area of assessment. An individual who has a degree or license to practice in the healthcare field. Lastly an individual with formal, supervised training specific to assessing children.
The Denver Developmental Screening Tool (DDST) is a set of tests that are administered to a young child to assess the child’s development. There are four different categories including; personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, language, and gross motor. Although the DDST is not meant to predict delays that could happen in the future, it is useful to identify current delays that the child may be facing. Helping parents and health care workers to obtain the means of referrals to specialists for more complex testing.
I walk over and ask him what it is he wants to bulid and if he would like help. He says yes and says that he would like to bulid a house I agree to help him bulid the house. Other children surround us but they are content playing with the cars and the wooden blocks. A child come near us with a toy car and starts knocking the house we are buliding down with the car that he has in his hand. J becomes very upset very fast after this happens and suddenly starts to shout NOO at the other student. The other child then smiles and drive the car away from the site of the magnetic blocks. I help J to then clean up the mess and start to bulid another house as we bulid the house again another child come near and wants to help he begans to place triangles on the house so we cant put the squares on in the right places to bulid the house. J becomes upset again. He yells NOO again and rips of the triangle pieces placeing them on the ground. The other children then looks at me for how he should react. So this change of behavior for J would be using nicer words to tell his friends that he doesn't enjoy what it is that they are doing and that he doesn't want their help buliding with the blocks. This behavior change is all thanks to the
After reading the article by Vayena, a point made by Cathleen Kaveny stood out to me as being a valid argument to why DTC testing could be problematic to the average person’s level of education. She claims that this testing could present, “serious difficulties (for ordinary DTC customers) when engaging in probabilistic reasoning” (Vayena, 312). The difficulties they endure can, “lead them to make harmful decisions” (Vayena, 312). I agree with Kaveny because the majority of people who have this testing done will have an insufficient amount of education to interpret the results properly. This could lead them into making certain decisions such as for example whether to conceive a child or not because of the probability of their child inheriting a disorder
The child chosen for this observation is a four year old male, who apparently is a healthy normal child. He weighs 42.5 pounds, and is 44 inches tall. His mother is Hispanic-American and his father is Hispanic; they are married and live together. The child lives with his parents and an older brother (sixteen years old, and not from the same father). He has another brother (nineteen years old, not from the same mother) that comes occasionally to the house. The child’s closest brother is twelve years apart from him. The neighborhood where he lives has restricted access, security personnel, and looks nice and clean. His room and rest of the house are clean and safe as well. He has his own room, TV station, DVD player, books, movies, and his toys, everything seems organized. Electric outlets around the house have a plastic protection cover.
I do not believe she is crazy like the children claim. It is her unique way of implementing nontraditional activities, the children are not familiar with. Instead of the ordinary games, she is teaching them about different variations of acting such as improv, being a part of democracies, public speaking, and even inventing new games. I have watched her quietly instil leadership skills, goals and acceptance in them, with a smile and catch phrase. I have been with her as she filled up water balloons for the children at night for “Water Days” and organized trips in her free time. In the cases of these children, most who are dependent on government assistance and reside in a low income areas, her ways are initially foreign to them. In time the children stop questioning her ways, adjust to them and enjoy themselves.
pass tasks that an average 9 year old can pass, then the child has a
Snow, C. E. (2008). Early childhood assessment why, what, and how. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
I chose to relate this theory because I feel like it can be present in most every child as well as parent. Based on the age and actions of the child, I would place her in the stage of autonomy vs. shame and doubt. This stage typically occurs between the ages of two and three years old, which matches the age of the young girl. In addition, I looked at the actions of the girl and there was one example that I feel matched what typically happens during this stage. When the parent first saw the play area for the kids, they decided to let their daughter play. They took her to the small table in the area and sat down next to her. The little girl got mad and said that she did not want her parents help. She wanted to do it alone. The parents eventually decided to go back and sit at the table while she played. Their table was right next to the toy areas, and they could keep a good eye on her while she played. They likely decided to do this to give their daughter more independence which will make her feel like she can do things on her own without the help of her parents. This theory also relates to the parents that I observed. Since they appear to be in their thirties, they would be in the generativity vs. stagnation stage of development. They clearly have a child and are focused on caring for others, specifically caring for their daughter. This stage was
I had many different test subjects that were available to me over Labor Day weekend, so it was difficult to pick which one to use. The subject that I picked was my 10 year old cousin Sarah. She has two older brothers, and she attends the Renaissance Expedition Learn Outward Bound School in Castle Rock, Colorado where she is a fourth grader. The testing took place at the kitchen table at our lake house. Sarah and I were the only ones that were inside that cabin when I was doing the testing on her, so there were no distractions. When I told her that I needed to do some tests on her, she was a little leery, but once I told her it needed to do it for one of my classes she was more than willing to participate.
The child that I selected to observe through the course of this semester is a Caucasian female. Her name is “R.” She was born on April 24, 2013. She is currently 10 months old, but will be turning one year old at the end of the semester. “R” is a child who is very active. She has an independent but outgoing personality. At this stage, she exhibits uncertainty with strangers and other people she recalls but has not physically seen in a period of time. Some of “R”'s favorite activities include tossing objects, mirroring actions and movements, music, a...
The games I came up with to help Nayeli is Strawberry Vine and Shape Bingo. The strawberry vine game is a game that will help the child with her beginning sounds of the alphabet A-Z. The parent main goal was to have her child know how to sound out the letters of the alphabet because she wants her child to speak clearly in the english langue. The game is respectful of the family because I did the game around the mother’s interest and the child’s likes. Nayeli loves strawberries, while at school she is always in the house area making strawberry cake and ice-cream. With that being said, the way this learning experience is beneficial for this particular child is because she loves strawberries and will learn the beginning sounds of the alphabet while using what she loves. Strawberries Vine promotes learning by demonstrate and initial understanding of letter sounds and relationships. It also is to demonstrate letter sound awareness by matching the letters to beginning sound of the