Case StudyGalang, John Byron M.

Ng, Nikki V.Taccad, Wico

This case study compares Joachim’s development to what developmentalist say is normal. The paper is focused primarily on the physical, cognitive, language, emotional, and social developments of Joachim. This paper gives examples of how Joachim is successfully developing normally for his age.

Joachim Angelo D. Banlao

6 years old

Grade 2

John Dewey School for ChildrenJoachim

Background of the ChildThis case study is on a 6 year old boy named Joachim Angelo D. Banlao. He is a grade 2 student at John Dewey School for Children. He lives at home with his parents. He said that his mom will be going to America so he usually spends his time with her. He admires his sister because his sister is the smartest in their family. While being observed he rather play with boys than the girls. He always watches T.V at home so he doesn’t have time to do his assignments and that his parents are too busy to help him do it. During weekends, he does skateboarding and biking.

Physical Development Joachim's Fine Motor Skills and Gross Motor Skills are

observed for his Physical Development.Gross Motor Skills Fine Motor Skills

observe the large muscles in the arms and legs.

factors that experts look at include strength, muscle tone, movement quality and the range of movement.

Walking, running, balance and coordination

Drawing, writing, grasping objects, throwing, waving and catching

Cognitive Development In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory, Joachim is at the concrete

operational stage, between seven to eleven, wherein the child gains a better understanding of mental operations, children should be able to think logically about concrete events, but has problem and difficulty in understanding hypothetical or abstract concepts (Cherry).

Joachim, has shown signs of being sociocentric, in the part where he is asking his fellow classmates about a view on this particular topic.

He has good thinking abilities and working patience, though he has trouble with spelling.

sociocentric (as opposed to

egocentric) being who is aware that others have their

own perspectives on the world and that those perspectives

are different from the child's own.

Language Development• He can be able to pronounce all vowels,

consonants, and diphthongs.• experience trouble pronouncing s, z, th,

and ch. • He can be able to provide stories,

descriptions or explanations relating to a specific topic.

• Although he can’t be able to form grammatically correct sentences, he can put together simple and complex sentences.

• According to Chomsky’s theory in language, Every child has a ‘language acquisition device’ or LAD which encodes the major principles of a language and its grammatical structures into the child’s brain.

This ability makes the task of learning a first language easier than it would be.

In Joachim’s case, his first language is Filipino so he tends to learn it easier than other languages.

Emotional Development

He is happy at times, but there are times when he is shy and looks away from the researcher when he is being talked to.

There was the time when he was asked to spell in front of class, and he was feeling ashamed at that point.

School-aged children begin to take pride in their ability to exert self-control, and enjoy the feedback that they receive from being responsible and cooperative.

Social Development Joachim is a good friend to his classmates, and gets

along them just well enough. He likes to play with others and likes to go around the

room talking to other children. According to Parten’s stages of play, Joachim is at the

stage of Associative play wherein the child is interested in people playing, but not interested in coordinating his activity to what the others are doing, in other words, not being in sync with them.

He imitates the teacher as he was showing everyone the step- by-step process of how to draw a cat.

According to Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory, Joachim is at the school age, 6 – 11 which has the basic conflict of Industry V.S. Inferiority. Children need to cope with new social and academic demands. Success leads to a sense of competence, while failure results in feelings of inferiority (Psychology.com).

Joachim showed signs of this stage of development, in the part where he was seeking my approval and the approval of his fellow classmates, he was working

hard so that he could be praised.

Conclusion

The researchers have concluded that the child Joachim has been developing very well and is at the normal milestones of the physical, cognitive, language, emotional and social developments. The researchers have conducted the observation of each skills and the results are the following: For Physical Development, Joachim showed the signs of walking, running, balance and coordination. For Cognitive Development, Joachim showed signs of being sociocentric, and being more realistic as well as logically thinking. For Language Development, J oachim showed signs of putting together simple and complex sentences. For Emotional Development, Joachim showed signs of feeling pride from his work and getting happy or sad about positive and negative feedbacks that are directed at him. For Social Development, Joachim showed signs of being competent and seeking approval from the researcher and from Joachim’s peers.

Recommendation

The researchers recommend that for future researchers and future case studies that they use John Dewey School for Children. This is so because John Dewey has excellent students, staff, and teachers that will help guide future researchers in their studies. We recommend the school because researchers don’t have to interview the parents of the child that they’re going to observe but instead researchers can get all the information needed from the student through their teacher. The students of John Dewey are bright, cooperative, and very well mannered. The researchers of this case study suffered very little hassle when involving the students.

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