Child Case Study
By: Chloie Lowe
Permission Form
Information About Child
Interview Questions
What are your child’s strengths?
Angela (mom): “She is pretty creative and good at expressing her emotions. She isn’t afraid to say if something bothers her or if she doesn’t like something. She is a perfectionist at most things, which can be a strength and weakness. She is pretty strong physically also.”
Josh (dad): “Her strengths are everything she puts her mind to, but definitely how much she cares about people and animals. She wants everyone and everything to be treated right and fairly. It’s impressive how much she really cares. She’s also very smart. If she believed in herself more than I think she can do anything.”
Interview Question
What are your child’s hobbies?
Angela (mom): “She loves gymnastics and tumbling. She has 3 rats and 2 gerbils that she plays with. She also has a big fidget collection.”
Josh (dad): “She does gymnastics and soccer. She also hangs out with her friends and plays games on her phone.”
What is a goal you have for your child?
Angela (mom): My goal for her is to not get so stressed out or overwhelmed by little things. She tends to get stressed very easily.
Josh (dad): My goal for her is to just try and find out what makes her happy and go for it. I just want life to be easier for her than what I’ve had.”
Interview Question
Do you have any concerns about your child’s development?
They are both mainly concerned about her social and emotional development.
Josh (dad): “My concerns are how shy she is and her self-confidence. If she could believe in herself more I really don’t see anything she couldn’t accomplish. She’s smart and dedicated enough to do anything if she’d believe more in herself.”
Angela (mom): “She seems stressed out about certain interactions with others and making friends with new people in middle school. She needs to work on self-regulating and balancing her emotions.”
First Observation
The Child has been struggling in her science class. I looked at her past assignments to see what she was struggling with the most and it was over the concept of matter.
For the first observation I created a worksheet for her to fill out. I used this worksheet to see how much she knew.
From this observation, I can see that she is able to problem-solve and think things through. I can also see that she is social with her family members. I noticed that she needs help understanding the vocabulary and concepts with matter. Which is what I helped her with in my intervention activity.
Intervention Activity
We first played a blooket I made over the vocabulary and concepts of matter . I set the timer for 8 minutes and documented her accuracy. After the first game, we filled out a worksheet together and then played the “Roll A Word” game I created.
Her accuracy for the first blooket game was 74% and 25/34 questions she got correct.
At the end of our activities her blooket score was 45/49 questions correct with a 94% accuracy rate.
I noticed that the repetition of our activities helped her remember the concepts.
Theorist:
Hermann Ebbinghaus
A theorist I found that I can relate to this Child is Hermann Ebbinghaus.
His theory talks about how the retention of information improves as a function of the number of times the information has been studied.
The learned knowledge needs to be consciously reviewed time and again.
The intervention activities that I done with the Child are repetitive and helped her retain the information.