Education Rough Draft of Final Assignment
Case study 1
Reece aged 2 years 6 months is having trouble putting words together to make sentences. You have noticed that he is not combining words and seems to only copy words and phrases from other children in the group. He is not producing words spontaneously. The words Reece does use are not always pronounced correctly. Reece only recently started care in your program, and at the time of enrolment there was no mention of Reece having been diagnosed with a hearing loss, developmental delay or syndrome in which language might be affected. Reece’s parents are fluent in English, and you know English is the family’s primary language.
Case study 2
Kim, who is currently 36 months of age, began your program at age 17 months. Kim has functional receptive language skills and routinely follows 2-3 step directions. She knows the names of her toys, colors, and various household objects. Kim uses 2-3 word phrases, expresses her wishes and dislikes with both words and gestures. Her pronunciation has not kept up with the vocabulary she tries to use. Kim tantrums 1-3 times daily when she cannot communicate her desires, especially to her classmates, since Kim is very motivated to play with them. Kim both initiates and reciprocates play interactions with adults and other children. She picks up and hands others books to read or toys to play with. She needs a lot of adult facilitation and direction to imitate what the other children are doing. She loves making noises and shaking noisy toys. She laughs easily and cries when frustrated.”
Case study 3
Phillip is Kara’s quiet eight-month-old son. Recently, Kara noticed that Phillip doesn’t seem to respond when she calls his name. Kara asked her own mother about this, and after talking and playing with Phillip for a while they realized that he was also not making the babbling sounds, such as “ba-ba-ba” or “da-da-da,” that most infants tend to do. Kara and her mother spoke more about the situation, and Kara did remember that Phillip had failed the newborn hearing screening at the hospital where he was born; however, Kara had not been too concerned about his hearing because he did seem to react to noises sometimes and that he had startled to the sound of a pot falling to the floor a few nights before. Kara’s mother suggested they take Phillip to an audiologist.
Case study 4