I am writing about a child named Hanna who
lives in Madison. Hanna has autism. What factors might I have missed or should I
consider? Also I would like to know I am just writing my paper correct or not? Am
I on the right track?
The toddlers at age one should be communication
and not crying as much. They should at this stage should have a limited vocabulary,
imitate your voice, respond accordingly, and follow simple directions. Furthermore
enjoys simple social games, such as “gonna get you!”, explores objects; finds
hidden objects, responds to “no” uses simple gestures, such as pointing to an
object, babbles with changes in tone; and may use single words (“dada”, mama”, “un-oh!”).
Hanna at the age one should have been performing the thing above
but she was not doing anything above. Hanna was supported in the environment at
home with her parents, grandfather, and siblings constantly communication with
her by probing her to dialogue and response to them but it was unsuccessful.
Furthermore the parents employed her personal speech pathologist in the home
and the things should performed professionally did not gain any rewards. The
first years of her life were only babbling and sounds but no words ever came
out of her mouth. According to Brown’s Stages of Language Development Hanna
should have been speaking two words sentences for example “Baby cry” or “No
juice” (Pence Turnbull, & Justice 2012). In addition, Hanna was not
speaking one word that was acquired at toddler stage first word, 50 words, and
100 words at this particular stage (p 201). Her grandfather was very mindful to
pray over her daily and also included the pastor of their church to visit the
home with some of the congregation to pray for her language development which
did not avail during these constantly tries.
Furthermore approaches that were taken to foster Hanna to speak
language and literacy development were allowing her to watch television,
reading books daily to her, and pointing and naming items around the home. The
mother also wrote words on strips of papers and placed them on the items in her
bedroom and around the kitchen to help recognize the word along with the items.
They placed a few items in the family room on tables, television (TV.) and
mirror etc. In the beginning of her life these approaches and strategies did
not seemed to help with her language development. Hanna had not moved from the
stage of infancy to toddler because of her nonverbal speech of autism. She was
still at the “imperative pointing and “declarative pointing” stage that
symbolized requesting parents to retrieve an object and to call attention to
infer socializing (Camaioni, Perucchini, Bellagamba, & Colonnesia, 2004).
