...A. General Comments I conducted my observation at the CSUN Child and Family Studies Center on April 13, 2018 from 2:40 until 4:50 PM. When I arrived for the observation, the children were playing outside in several different areas. There were approximately 50 students between the ages of about 3 or 4 with about 8-10 teachers. There were a lot of children because it was their outdoor play time for two other classes. I spent time sitting by the sandbox, climbing structure, and swings. They were outside for about an hour before the classes split up for their own activities. I then observed a classroom setting for an hour with 4 teachers and about 10-12 children. There is a room with a one way window in which I can see the children and teachers...
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...Executive function in individuals with sub threshold Autism traits 12 Conclusion 14 References 15 Abstract The increasing number of individuals with Learning Disabilities (LD) and psychiatric disorders presents a key challenge to their assessment and treatment in mental health services. Children and young people with LD are more likely to experience mental health than the general population (Allington-Smith, 2006). There is a close relationship between autism spectrum disorder and learning disability. Epidemiological studies suggest that autism is more frequent in people with LD, nearly 40% of people with LD also have autism on the other hand, and nearly 70% of people with autism also have LD (La Mafa, 2004). The strong association between autism and LD (Bradley, 2004) also associates an increased risk of mental health problems. It is suggested that adults with LD and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may experience symptoms of anxiety at a greater level than the general population; however, this requires more conclusive evidence in relation to the prevalence of anxiety disorders in adults with LD and autism. Autism Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. This is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain. Autism is four more times...
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...child participated in during your observation. During my observation for my first time visit she was seeing her occupational therapist. The first assignment she told me target child to do was to get four marble balls out of silly pudding. She completed this lesson fully and this was a great hands activity. The next activity she did with my target child...
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...Assessment Portfolio and Analysis Carolyn Lake ECE 354 Assessment and Intervention During Early Childhood Instructor Karla Cannon November 13, 2013 Table of Contents Mission statement…………..................................................................3 Partial portfolio…………………………………………………………4 Anecdotal Record Form…………………………………………………….8 Event Sampling Form……………………………………………………….9 My mission is to help the students to advance so that he/she can accomplish their goal of learning and growing. My goal is to determine what a child has learned, what the individual already know and how much more the child is prepared to learn by assessing the child. The purpose of assessment is used for an assortment of reasons “it helps the teacher to keeping track of learning, diagnosing reading and writing difficulties, determining eligibility for programs, evaluating programs, evaluating teaching, and reporting to others. Underlying all these purposes is a basic concern for improving teaching and learning. In the United States it is common to use testing for accountability, but the ultimate goal remains the improvement of teaching and learning. (IRA, n.d.) I know that it is the teacher’s responsibility to test her students so that she understands where each individual stand so I am able to determine placement for the child. My plan for including assessments when I am working with children is so that I am able to assess the...
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... engaging and flexible curriculum that helps them to be successful in society.” (Salend 6) Inclusion not only benefits those children who are disabled but also the children without disabilities because it is an opportunity for them to learn about disabilities and learn to accept the differences that everyone has. While inclusion may not be for every child out there, the benefits greatly outweigh the negatives, thus why an inclusive classroom has been more and more pushed as the way to go for education of younger children. (Browne 117-118) “Children with disabilities need the same things in their environment as other children. They need an environment that is safe, secure, and predictable and one that provides a balance of the familiar and novel, so that there are materials and activities that provide for their development.” (Browne 342) There is no one law that forces classrooms to be inclusive, but when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 it made it illegal for any facility to deny any person or persons admittance into a facility because they had a disability. Another law that has made waves in the equality of education for all is Public Law 94-142, which was passed in 1975. This law was later revised in 1990 and re-named the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). (Mastropieri 14-17) An IEP is a legal...
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...Published in 2001, Phyllis Neeley, Richard Neeley, Joseph Justen III, and Carla Tipton-Sumner conducted a clinical study titled “Scripted Play as a Language Intervention Strategy for Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities.” The objective of this study was to analyze how teaching “sociodramatic play” by using a scripted situation effects unstructured play times in preschoolers that have developmental disabilities (Neeley, p. 243, 2001). There have been few other studies about the subject, but those studies yielded outcomes that suggested scripted play did improve the subjects’ free play behavior (Neeley, p. 243, 2001). The subjects of this study included nine preschoolers with disabilities that attended a school that also enrolled children...
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...October 2011 Reading and writing disorders: a research-based assessment intervention by Layne Neel, Ashton Johnson and Jeffrey D. Shahidullah that examines different learning and writing disabilities and their IQ achievement criteria uses by APA to access them. Learning disabilities, or learning disorders, are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. Kids with learning disabilities aren’t lazy or dumb. In fact, most are just as smart as everyone else. Their brains are simply wired differently. This difference affects how they receive and process information. Simply put, children and adults with learning disabilities see, hear, and understand things differently. This can lead to trouble with learning new information and skills, and putting them to use. The most common types of learning disabilities involve problems with reading, writing, math, reasoning, listening, and speaking. According to the researcher Layne, Johnson and Jeffery; on half of all special education services ‘children are under the specific classification learning disability category which imply that in fact reading disorders affect four percent of school-age children and constitute about ninety percent of student with learning disability with an additional ten percent of school-age population are affected by writing disorders. Of specific concern to educators, they explained. With many concern, the role that both reading...
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...Abstract This paper will discuss fire safety for special needs students. It will discuss the organizational strategy that will include the intervention, the audience, goals, measurable learning outcomes, content outline and its relationship to other elements within the course. There will be an intervention designed for the course that will include the following: the topic, the time it will take, the room setup, the interactions of the students, the media, materials, learning objectives, Gagne Level, Taxonomy Level, Instructional strategy and the assessment plans. The conclusions that are drawn will be discussed. Fire Safety for Special Needs Students Project Name: Fire Safety for Special Needs Students Project Mgr: Linda Lee Learning Intervention It appears that the students in Ms. Lee’s special education class seem to be having difficulties learning basic survival skills. The classroom for children with special needs is designed like a home. Children are taught basic survival skills so that they will know what to do in an emergency. During a recent fire drill, the students held their hands over their ears instead of lining up at the door. Once we got them to the door we told them we are now going outside and four of the students turned toward the gym instead of toward the door that had been opened for them. In another case, while role-playing, the students were told that a classmate’s dress was on fire and was asked what to do, instead of answering...
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...Child Study Cynthia Machol ED603 – Human Growth & Development University of New Haven March 28, 2011 Introduction As a future teacher it is important to be able to understand the physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that students are going through. Teachers must be versed in the basis of all areas of development. Teachers have a huge responsibility to give their students a positive, enlightening classroom in which they can blossom physically, cognitively, and emotionally. A teacher that understands their students’ physical development may find it easier to identify a possible cause to a problem a child is having in school. Understanding the stages of cognitive development is of the utmost importance. Knowing a child’s starting point is essential for a teacher so they can plan the right way to help move the child through their zone of proximal development. It is a teacher’s job to promote thinking abilities in their students. By asking higher order questions a teacher will help in their cognitive development. A child’s development of personality and self-esteem is important to not only their schooling, but in their whole life. A teacher can help their students establish this personality and give them multiple ways to develop their sense of self. My purpose in this child study is to be able to analyze an individual child’s physical, emotional, and cognitive development and determine how the changes she is going through will affect her learning and behavior. ...
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...society parents care more about themselves than their child's education. It takes time to ensure your kid’s education is on track especially if a child has fallen behind. Instead of recognizing or admitting that they are deficient parents most will just say there most be something wrong with the child, it is after all much easier it get you child to take medication than to supervise and tutor them on a daily basis. The second source is probably the one some people are not going to want to hear, but we all acknowledge the fact that intelligence varies from person to person. We can't all be geniuses, but many parents can't face the fact that their kid just may not be the brightest or most “book” smart child. So again, instead of facing reality, there must be something wrong with their child so they medicate them. Since ADHD/ADD does not have a definitive way or test it is based off of observation I think more exercise and play would help a lot of these kids. Young children need play time; this is how they learn. If their diet is poor, improved diet is always a good idea. And many of these kids are experiencing neglect, or instability, or stress at home, so merely drugging these kids is not the answer. Although ADD/ADHD is commonly treated with medications, treatment for dyslexia consists of educational interventions, including word recognition and component skills. Dyslexia is generally not treated with drugs. The treatments for both learning disabilities, are not cures and may...
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...Is it possible for the 41 year old divorcee to inner peace, and if so, how will an assessment correlate with this? Also, can the academic careers of the two students somehow be salvaged? This paper will delve into the different historical and contextual considerations for these clients in hopes that one can find similarities in the cases given. In addition, this paper will discuss the ethical and personal issues that could hinder an assessment from bearing the fruit that is needed to help these people in crisis find an alternative to the madness. Assessments can definitely either assist or hurt a client’s chance of recovery especially if the wrong one is given to them. B.F Skinner said in 1938 that, “we need to go beyond mere observation to a study of functional relationships” and that, “we may only do this by finding variables of which behavior is a function” (Steege & Watson 2009, p. 1). These quotes have a lot of meaning behind them. Skinner not only wanted to watch people in everyday relationships but he also wanted to identify the different sets of circumstances that life throws at us to examine first-hand how they can not only interfere with our transactions with others but how they make us behave as well. Of course when a person fails to act according to the rules and ideas that the society around them considers to be normal,...
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...In the fourth grade, my classroom was directly beside my mom’s Life-Learners classroom. The values my mother demonstrates everyday throughout her work and personal life, I grew to adopt. I remember visiting her class everyday, as often as possible, as a peer-buddy. By meeting with the Life-Learners students, immersion set me on a course to feel comfortable with and accepting of people with disabilities at an early age, which then helped me develop a calm persona and natural instincts in a variety of conditions. Now I understand that people with disabilities are our peers, have a lot to offer society, and have a great potential to be successful. Throughout middle school and high school, I continued to volunteer in my mom’s Life-Learners classroom....
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...up ten percent and students of mixed races make up about five percent of the student body. These percentages are very different than what the demographics of the teachers at this school are. When looking at the teachers ninety-four percent of them are white. Only about five percent are Hispanic, the other races do not even make up one percent of the population. Throughout the diversity in this school approximately thirteen percent of the students are English-language learners. The teaching staff also has little diversity in regards to gender. The female population makes up seventy-nine percent of the staff and males only make up twenty-one percent. The principal actually told us that there was only one male teacher in Willard Elementary. In this school there is a large majority of students that receive free or reduced lunches, approximately seventy-three percent of the student body come from low-income families. There are also two percent of students at this school who are actually...
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...The Psychological Effects of Bullying John Wells Maryville University Observations of Children on a Psychiatric Unit This part of the paper will cover my observations of patient-to-patient aggression in the form of verbal, emotional, and physical bullying on an inpatient behavioral health unit, and its psychological effects. Over the span of 3 weeks I observed the interactions between children on a psychiatric unit where I work. Each week I spent one shift making observations. I do not typically work the children's unit, but I was able to float to this unit and make observations during the time where the kids were in the day area interacting. The type of bullying I saw the most was in the form of verbal. Verbal bullying happened 100 percent of the time I was on the unit. It involved children of all ages, race, and gender. The verbal aggression was consistently focused on intellect, appearance, skin color, lifestyle choices, and ethnicity. The most common form of verbal aggression was directed at appearance and intellect. This was very interesting to me because our patients have general learning disabilities. I also saw emotional bullying. This type of bullying included the spread of rumors, excluding others from activities, and refusal of talking to other patients. The last type of bullying I observed was physical bullying. This type of bullying was less likely to happen on our unit. I felt that the presence of staff and security discouraged this type of bullying...
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...Health and Safety Checklist Age of Children 2 1/2 & 3 Students Name: Carnieshia Simons Date of Observation: March 18, 2013 Time observation began 9-3pm Building Blocks PreSchool While visiting Building Blocks Preschool's 2 1/2 and 3 year class on March 18, 2013 I had the opportunity to observe there class from the start of the learning day up until 3:00pm. Space: As I entered the class room I noticed that the classroom was in good repair as well as clean and accessible to the young individuals I did not notice any thing out of place everything was well put together. As far as light was concearned there was not enough sun light to enter the room being that the class room was in the back of the building. There is no door in the classroom that leads to the outside only the one window. There was more than enought space to move freely as far children with disabilities there are no students that attend Building Blocks with any know physical disabilities. The shape of the classroom is a rectangle where all children are in sight and sound of the teachers at all times. Shelfs were at height and arms reach of the children shelfs were accessible to the child so no needed assistance was needed by the teachers. As I walked around the classroom I observed that all sockets were covered and there were no hanging cords around that the child could have access to. The cabinets that cleaning solutions are kept in are labled and locked with a child resistant strap. The...
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