Infant Development Case Study

Infant Developmental Summary for Sarah
Sarah’s overall development needs referral for further evaluation. Sarah is a smiling happy infant, who makes eye contact, and babbles responding to the adults. Sarah’s gross motor development is at-risk, as of evidence she has not transferred objects from hand to hand, she also has not started rolling from her stomach to back and back to stomach. She has not yet developed sitting unsupported yet, and having her legs support her whole weight as she stands up. Her fine motor development is on-target as she can grasp objects dangling in front of her and finds partially hidden objects. Sarah’s language is on target, in evidence she just need to work on her responding to spoken “bye-bye” by waving and her …show more content…
Frank plays outside with his peers, he ran up and down the slide, and he sat on the tricycle. He moved the tricycle by “walking”. Frank’s gross motor development is at-risk, in evidence of him not yet being able to go upstairs and downstairs without support and, moves forward and backward. Frank needs referral regarding his gross motor development, as in not yet being able to grasp a crayon between thumb and fingers. His fine motor development is at-risk, in him not yet copying square shapes, draws circles and squares, and beginning to copy some capital letters. Frank will need referral regarding his fine gross development as in, not yet copying a circle. Frank’s language is on-target, as he is able to understand the concepts of “same” and “different” and asking questions in class. His cognitive development is on-target with him correctly naming some colors and understanding the causality (“I can make things happen”). Frank’s self-helping skills are on-target as in evidence. He can feed his self with a spoon without spilling, and can do simple household tasks (set the table). He is on-target socially-emotionally in evidence of frank, interested in new experiences and more