Sam Dawson is a single father to a little girl named Lucy. He lives in Los Angeles in an apartment with his daughter. He has an intellectual disability. He has the IQ of a seven-year-old child. He has some challenges when he talks and he acts like he is a young child. I would categorize Sam as mild to moderate intellectual disability, because he was capable of doing things on his own, with some little help. He was able to have a job and take care of his daughter, but he did have some challenge and difficulties than a normal person would have. Some background information on his family life is, when he was a child his mother got sick and died, so Sam went into an institution. He considered the people that worked at the institution to be his family. He says in the movie that he was abused in the institution; the people that worked there would hit him a lot. Sam, father was not around, he left Sam and his mother when he was very young. I believe Sam parents were separated because his father left them and his parents did not have any involvement in his life, because his mom was sick and his dad left and he was place in an institution. The movie does not discuss whether or not Sam, has any sibling or not. The family circumstances, I think directly affected the child’s social-emotional, behavioral and academic well being because, because I think putting him in an institution helped him become very social and express how he feels, and he is extremely smart for having an IQ of a seven year old. If …show more content…
He got most of his support from his group of friends, his neighbor and his co-workers, when he worked at Starbucks. The family’s socioeconomic status, is Sam did not really have a family and he is a stable father raising his daughter, his family’s socioeconomic status affected him cause being in an institution provide him with the services he needed for his