Child A Case Study Examples

This case study is based on a child aged 18 months old and will be known as ‘Child A’ for the duration of this case study this is for child protection, data protection and safeguarding, permission had also been granted from the setting off the Special education needs co-ordinator (SENCO) and the setting manager, (see Appendix 1) . ‘Child A’ is based in a Charity run day nursery and attends 4 Days a week. ’Child A’ lives at home with both Mother and Grandmother. They are mainly cared for by their grandmother and have no siblings or any other relations of a similar age. ‘Child A’ has development needs with behaviour and separation. With links to the Early Years Foundation Stage ‘Child A’ is also showing a delay within the speech and language …show more content…
When ‘Child A’ is cared for by his mother they struggle with separation, this being that when ‘Child A’ attends the setting and arrives with grandma ‘Child A’ has a smooth and settled hand over from Grandma to Practitioner. When ‘Child A’ arrives to the setting with mother, the mother to practitioner hand over, they become very distressed and cling’s to the mother. At this point ‘Child A’ shows signs of separation anxiety this being that ‘Child A’ is distressed and upset when left by their mother. Sigmund Freud states that ‘Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. (Sigmund Freud, 1905, Page 54) this could relate to separation from ‘Child As’ Mother, ‘Child A’ is just proving he has an attachment with their mother and is unsettled leaving her. These signs could also be that ‘Child A’ has a close bond with their mother even though grandma is their main carer. ‘Child A’ is settled with the rest of the day at the setting, this being with help from their Key worker. The key worker system was introduced around 1993 by Elinor Goldschmied and is now in place in the majority of childcare settings. ‘Child A’ has a good relationship bond with their key worker, but shows signs of separation if this practitioner is not in the setting. Therefor I think ‘Child A’ would benefit from having a secondary Key worker …show more content…
Julie Fisher ‘emphasizes that, especially for children learning English as a second language, ‘one of the most important elements of an environment for young learners is the provision of opportunities for children to talk together and with adults. (Julie Fisher, 1996, Page 133) as ‘Child A’ has English as a second language I think this could be a key factor to his language development, therefore this should be taken into consideration when links their development with the