Daycare: Case Study Of Literacy In Children

Toby is a bright boy who is able to converse in age-appropriate topics in addition to actively participating in classroom activities in his high-quality daycare center. His initial assessment and evaluation suggests a language impairment. This result seems to be in agreement with his current language abilities that are in the two-word utterances stage and a low-average score in his understanding of language. The family stressors (limited finances, traveling away for work and a family member living at home with a terminal illness) probably contribute to a lot of the physical and emotional toll on Toby’s parents. I can imagine if the one with a terminal illness is a grandparent residing at the residence, then the parents must be under a lot of stress between working long hours to achieve financial security and paying costly medical bills. Commuting back and forth may also take up an hour or more in the day, causing later dinnertimes. In that case, once his parents are home, they would have to rush and cook a meal for Toby, take care and spend time with the sick, before even tending to …show more content…
Joint activities would reduce the cognitive load Toby while still letting him focus on the language or image depicted. Enhancing Toby’s literacy skills early on can prove to be extremely useful in making him an effective reader later on. Once his language skills allow, instructing Toby to describe the pictures in a book by himself would let the daycare leader assess his thought processes and language production through his descriptions. In the meantime, reading books will also help his letter-to-sound associations, understanding of story telling sequencing and turn taking skills. From this activity, I am hoping to see improvements in Toby’s phonology and pragmatics while he is in a pre-school