I observed a three-year-old child at Head Start in Amanda, Ohio on September 29, 2016. I observed his motor skills, cognitive skills, and his emotional abilities. One important thing to note is the child I studied has being removed from his parents, has been in foster care and currently resides with his aunt and uncle.
The child I studied did not speak too much and when he did he was very soft spoken, hard to understand and clearly had some speech problems as his teacher indicated to me. He over- used grammar rules and referred to himself as me instead of I. It was clear that he did not know how old he was, he told me he was one. In the area of cognition, he could correctly name all his color, sort objects by color (he had trouble with shape), …show more content…
He has a hard time letting go of his aunt and uncle maybe feeling like they may not return for him so there is a lack of trust there, once he is at school he tends to be fine, although he shows no emotion or affection towards anyone else. Once the caregivers return he immediately clings to them, so I think he is trying to trust them despite the trauma he has been through maybe he is unsure. During the time his is in school, he plays with others and seems happy, so I would say he does not have an avoidant attachment. I would predict if his caregiver was with him at school he would not engage in anything else, he would not leave their side to go play with …show more content…
His safety is being met although he may not feel completely confident in it yet due to his past. He is starting to form healthy relationships with his caregivers and seems to have friends to play with. I feel that he is starting to feel a little stability with a routine that he may not have experienced before. In Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, he is in the Trust vs mistrust stage, during this stage, the child is uncertain about the world in which they live. I believe he is trying to move into the next stage of Autonomy Vs Shame and Doubt, he will go and play on his own as long as his caretakers were not in the room, he makes decisions about which activities he wants to do during the course of the school day and was encouraged to do so. In Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, this child is in the Preoperational stage. At this stage, kids learn through pretend play but still struggle with logic and they often struggle with understanding the ideal of constancy. For example, I might take two pieces of paper and crumbled it into a ball while the other remains the same since the untouched paper looks larger, the preoperational child will likely choose that piece even though the two pieces are exactly the same size. The child engages in pretend play, they played house and dressed up as different characters you would see
The child I studied did not speak too much and when he did he was very soft spoken, hard to understand and clearly had some speech problems as his teacher indicated to me. He over- used grammar rules and referred to himself as me instead of I. It was clear that he did not know how old he was, he told me he was one. In the area of cognition, he could correctly name all his color, sort objects by color (he had trouble with shape), …show more content…
He has a hard time letting go of his aunt and uncle maybe feeling like they may not return for him so there is a lack of trust there, once he is at school he tends to be fine, although he shows no emotion or affection towards anyone else. Once the caregivers return he immediately clings to them, so I think he is trying to trust them despite the trauma he has been through maybe he is unsure. During the time his is in school, he plays with others and seems happy, so I would say he does not have an avoidant attachment. I would predict if his caregiver was with him at school he would not engage in anything else, he would not leave their side to go play with …show more content…
His safety is being met although he may not feel completely confident in it yet due to his past. He is starting to form healthy relationships with his caregivers and seems to have friends to play with. I feel that he is starting to feel a little stability with a routine that he may not have experienced before. In Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, he is in the Trust vs mistrust stage, during this stage, the child is uncertain about the world in which they live. I believe he is trying to move into the next stage of Autonomy Vs Shame and Doubt, he will go and play on his own as long as his caretakers were not in the room, he makes decisions about which activities he wants to do during the course of the school day and was encouraged to do so. In Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, this child is in the Preoperational stage. At this stage, kids learn through pretend play but still struggle with logic and they often struggle with understanding the ideal of constancy. For example, I might take two pieces of paper and crumbled it into a ball while the other remains the same since the untouched paper looks larger, the preoperational child will likely choose that piece even though the two pieces are exactly the same size. The child engages in pretend play, they played house and dressed up as different characters you would see