Morgan's Play Analysis

In the context we provided, Morgan’s level of play seems to be consistent with his age. He was able to perform different schematic combinations, use absent objects in play, and he has entered into the organized multi-scheme combinations. At first, he was playing with a barn and was organizing the animals into groups. He organized them based on their size. He then began to put cars into the barn as well as different animals. This represents his ability to group based on characteristics as well as multi-scheme combinations. He is able to perform two pretend actions such as making a car noise and then parking it in the garage he built out of Legos. He has developed symbolic play as he was able to pretend that blocks were beds, couches, and furniture …show more content…
This may have been caused by lack of understanding of the situation or question, but more likely was caused by his unwillingness to answer (as demonstrated by his frustration in kicking the kangaroo afterwards). Morgan’s responsiveness to the questions presented demonstrates that he has significant receptive knowledge and is very advanced for a child of his age.
From the information collected during this observation, it would appear that Morgan’s receptive language functioning is very advanced. He was provided with a wide variety of adequate tasks and was able to appropriately respond to the vast majority of them. He responded to topics ranging from his clothing to dinosaur attacks and was able to appropriately comment and react to commands. For the most part, Morgan was very obedient to commands presented, although he did show some indifference to commands such as, “make the dinosaur fly.” When he did not respond correctly to a command or comment, it was almost always because of indifference, and not for lack of understanding. When he heard a comment about a dinosaur …show more content…
One of his comments he made while we were playing was
“stupid baby kangaroo. I say stupid because I can’t find stuff.” From this comment, we can tell he doesn’t have a clear meaning of stupid, but uses it to make a comment regarding what he is feeling.
Based on our observations, Morgan’s main form of communicating is answering questions. When we first arrived, we just wanted to see how he played. We watched him play and he was content with not interacting with any of us. Once we began asking him questions, he began to use speech and interact with each of us. The main form of communicating was answering the questions we asked him, but he would imbed comments and stories into his answers. An example of this would be when we asked him “What’s this called?” His response was, “a bus, Gabby has one too.” By the end of the two hours, he was able to just use statements and comments to communicate with us. This was demonstrated when he finally got to see Emily’s car. He was ecstatic to be sitting in that car and just kept talking about different stories and providing different comments. We were all able