Identification Of Preschool Development Through Written Report Homework Answer

A Case Study about Reed

This Case study is about a 4-year-old child named Reed. Reed lives with his mom and dad in the country. His dathem, but they cannot see the homes. They have several pets, whom Reed loves, they have 2 dogs, a Guiney pig, and a goat. 

Reed is the second child in the family. His older sister attends full-day early learning centre where she goes to daily and bus picks her up at the end of the driveway.  Reed’s mom is pregnant for the 3^rd child, which is due in 3 months. 

He loves to spend time playing with his Thomas the Tank Engine, playing with his pets, even the goat outside, he loves being inside and outside the house. He is technology savvy; he can be seen playing on his iPad in the evenings after dinner. Although there was a consistent routine at home, things are getting a bit more unstructured as mom is approach her due date, and dad being away on business. Reed is having a tough time accepting the word “no” when his mom attempts to add structure to their lives.

He developed normally during the prenatal stages. He was born by caesarean section during full-term pregnancy. At birth he weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and measured 19 inches in length. His mom experienced difficulty breastfeeding and soon after trying to breastfeed she decided to bottle feed him formula.  He was walking at the age 13 months and was potty trained around 3 years of age. At the age of 3.6 Reed broke his right arm while playing in the woods with his dog. Having a cast on his right arm he was unable to draw or build with small blocks. 

Now at 4 years of age Reed is 32 inches tall and weighs around 36 pounds. He can run, hop on one foot, jump, walks up and down the stairs and dresses and undress on his own. Most of his growth happened while he was between 18 months and 36 months.  He enjoys rough housing with his dad when he is home. When his dad is not home, he often attempts to roughhouse with his dog.  While using scissors, Reed, needs help opening and closing the scissors while cutting paper. 

Reed spoke his first 3-word sentences at the age of fifteen months. Today, he can express himself in sentence format. Meet Reed, listen to his conversation.  

In this video, Reed talks about the difference between girls and boys. He tends to identify girls and boys with their likes and dislikes. He is becoming more intuitive in his thinking and his expression. Reed progressed from babbling to his first words around fifteen months. As you will have seen/heard him speak in the video, he can now form complete sentences.

When his mother is doing launder or setting the table, he is often eager to help her out. He will ask if he can help. His mom gives him small tasks, like matching the socks or helping set the table for a meal. 

Reed has a particular interest in Dinosaurs, he watches documentaries about dinosaurs and will talk about them in length, telling his listener all about them. He also enjoys playing dinosaur games on his iPad. Reed is experiencing some night terrors, whereby he wants his mom to lie beside him when he goes to sleep. He enjoys reading a book with his mom before bed and often tries to convince her to read 2 or 3 books some nights.   Lately Reed seems to be looking for a resolve about monsters, and ghosts. He is not sure if they really exit, or if they are fantasy. 

He realizes that books could help him sort out some of his uncertainties about monsters and dinosaurs. He is inquisitive and enjoys learning. Some of his favourite books are:

Reed can count and can draw most letters (he wrote his name below) and this is a drawing of his dinosaur.   

When he is with his sister he will often engage in a game of Chutes and Ladders, or Candy Land where he can count the required spaces and coordinating the number on the dice with the number of squares to move forward. Reed sometimes shows signs of being a perfectionist. On example is when he could not fit all the puzzle pieces back in the box, he spends a few seconds trying to force them in then he became more and more frustrated and smashed the lid down on the box. However, when his dad came over to help and provided suggestion of how to place the puzzle pieces in the box, he welcomed his suggestion.  He is okay with accepting suggestions and open to learning new ways. 

Reed enjoys going to his preschool three days a week. He is eager to see his friends but sometimes has a difficult time to say goodbye to mom when she leaves. He usually hangs onto to her leg when it is time for her to go. At the end of the day, he is happy to see her come back and runs into her arms.  Reed eventually lets go of his mom, once the RECE comes to greet him at the door. He will then let his mom go and he will often join in with a group of boys already playing.  He can easily join the other boys, by offering some kind of contribution to the play, at times it may be bringing in a truck, or suggestion he can be the “dad”, or even giving an idea of contributing to the play. 

Reed can show a wide range of emotions, happiness, sadness, confusion, frightfulness.  He can easily create new relationships with other children. One day at the childcare a new boy arrived and Reed went up to him and asked him his name. He did not invite him to play, however he did greet him. Reed has shown some anger and sometimes loses control over his emotion. He will lash out and begin to throw objects and/or say mean things. It takes a few minutes for Reed to calm down. 

For the most part Reed gets along well with others but sometimes he needs a warning before transitioning so that he is prepared for what comes next. 

Objective: To identify preschool development through written report

• This assignment can be done alone or in pairs (if you do it in pairs please email me to let me know)
• Read the case study on Reed. 
• Using the chart below list  indicators that identify the various developmental domains in which Reed is developing. 
• The domains have been identified as they are in the text book. Be sure to include as much development as you can, in each domain. 
• Identify a concept and provide the example from the case study and support why you listed this skill, behavior, ability.
• Each concept must be supported with either a Theoretical concept, quotes from the text book, lectures from YouTube videos and from ELECT. 
• See heading on each domain to identify how many. 
• Feel free to add more boxes. 
• APA references required