The first individual observed was a 7-month old child. The child is my cousin and was just born a few months ago, and with the approval of his parents I was able to observe and take notes on his behavior. His overall behavior was not out of the ordinary and observing him for almost an hour allowed me to get a physical demonstration of all the various developmental characteristics we learned in class. Some of these characteristics include the palmar reflex which was immediately demonstrated as soon as I attempted to place a finger on the palm of his hand. The symmetrical tonic reflection was gone and not demonstrated as we have learned in class, about how as the child develops, various reflexes begin to disappear. The stepping reflex was also
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I asked the kind day care lady if I could observe them for an hour and take notes for a school project and she graciously allowed me to. One thing I noticed at first glance was the sheer amount of energy that the toddler displayed, he was jumping everywhere, hopping over objects, running different places with moderate amounts of coordination. In relation to his jumping, whenever he would climb onto a bed and jump off, he did not have enough balance to hold himself upright on the bed resulting in a wavered jump, along with the landing which was uncoordinated resulting in landing on all four appendages. Running was also in beginner stages, stability was favored over mobility, ergo his feet were planted flat when he ran increasing his stability, arms were also in high regard limiting his overall movement but giving him …show more content…
His ideas were on a tangent so one sentence would lead to another idea leading to another where a concrete sentence could not be formed. It was also common for him to forget about what he was talking about half way through a sentence and physically try to regain his recollection only to be silent if he could not and try to play off embarrassment by directing our attention else where. Overall the observation of the toddler was nothing out of the ordinary, although we never really talked about speech development in class, it seemed to be a pretty standard characteristic within the children
I asked the kind day care lady if I could observe them for an hour and take notes for a school project and she graciously allowed me to. One thing I noticed at first glance was the sheer amount of energy that the toddler displayed, he was jumping everywhere, hopping over objects, running different places with moderate amounts of coordination. In relation to his jumping, whenever he would climb onto a bed and jump off, he did not have enough balance to hold himself upright on the bed resulting in a wavered jump, along with the landing which was uncoordinated resulting in landing on all four appendages. Running was also in beginner stages, stability was favored over mobility, ergo his feet were planted flat when he ran increasing his stability, arms were also in high regard limiting his overall movement but giving him …show more content…
His ideas were on a tangent so one sentence would lead to another idea leading to another where a concrete sentence could not be formed. It was also common for him to forget about what he was talking about half way through a sentence and physically try to regain his recollection only to be silent if he could not and try to play off embarrassment by directing our attention else where. Overall the observation of the toddler was nothing out of the ordinary, although we never really talked about speech development in class, it seemed to be a pretty standard characteristic within the children