ECSE 340 Week 7

This week was our first full intervention with our infant. My partner and I were working on two domains one being gross motor and the other is communication. Our infant is almost 15 months old and he is not walking or standing independently for more than a few seconds. He is also communicating very little, he sometimes babbles but it is very inconsistent.

I felt extremely good with our intervention, my partner and I work extremely well together. We were able to transition between the different activities smoothly and gave the mother encouragement and new ideas to try with her infant. It feels very natural to come in and be with the mother and the baby at this point. She voices concerns and we give ideas to help her.

The activities we did this week promoted labeling objects to help the child recognize and eventually say the names of certain items. And it promoted standing independently for a period of time. The infant was very invested in both activities and the mother is excited to continue to work on them.

I just want to know of more activities that help boost an infants desire to walk. That is the biggest issue that we have encountered.

ECSE 421 Week 7

This week was all doing the Family Project with my group. We have been completing part C and now part D in preparation to presenting on Wednesday. Part C has been the hardest part, but it also has been the most interesting. How parents have to scour to find these different resources they need, and often times they just see something that is hard for the child or the family. But they do not know what they need to do or what resources are available. It has really opened my eyes to what they have to go through and how little the know about the symptoms. 

With my Higher Wider Deeper project, I went to the career fair to talk to the BYU representative about the Speech Program there. We just talked about the timeline of when I would come down and start the prerequisites for the program and when I would be able to apply to the Master's Program. 

ECSE 340 Week 6

This week participating in the baseline visit was interesting, as we are assessing the child and his abilities. We are working on his gross motor and communication skills. And while we were assessing his gross motor, I see that he was able to do everything we were testing for. And the real issue is he just does not see a need. Which is for me seems to be the hardest part of development it can be.

As we were learning about the DAP project I was super excited. That we are going to really going to have to think this through to figure what we could do and continuous have him do to help him progress. It is neat to think how much a part of their life you are going to be as an interventionist.

Week 6

     Learning about Mental Health and the impact on family hurt, this is the one I have been impacted the most on. Losing someone to mental health struggles is full of sadness, guilt and for many Mormon families as well confusing and almost hopeless. That mother was talking about how she can just imagine herself being in the shoes of those mothers of the shooters. It made me sick, having someone in your life that you love so much that is that unstable. It is just sick, and it makes you want to just give up. It is seemingly impossible to know how to help someone with severe depression, often you find them distancing themselves from you and it hurts. But after talking about it, as a class it does help a lot to know how I can better start to understand and help the individuals and the families.

     With my Higher Wider Deeper project I am focusing on, just how long it will take me to get into the program. Planning out your life almost never works your favor it is nice to dream. With 4 more semesters here for my ECSE degree, then starting the pre requisites in Winter 2020, that means I need to be applied to it by the end of Spring 2020. There are only 2/4 of the schools that would let me start in the winter. So it most likely would start for me Fall of ’22.

ECSE 340

When we were learning how to read and assess the Ages and Stages Assessments. When I was giving the test last week I was able to see how these little prompts align with their development. As I have started planning for his lower domains of development. I am nervous about finding activities that are going to help him progress. I don't know how I am going to help the parents plan activities that are going to flow into the parents routine. 

My questions are how do you decide what he needs to work on? Like if he can't crawl, how do you find out that he needs more core strength or something?

ECSE 421 Week 5

This week we were learning about how having someone with a disability effects the rest of the family. We focused on the father relationship, and fathers in education. How there is the expectation that education and caring for children is singularly the mothers job. That we plan meetings and appointments for times when working parents are in the office, making it harder for a father to be part of his child's education. 

This has just made me aware that we have to really plan to have the parents work together as a team if they have a basic nuclear family. And to help the parents see that it is both of their jobs. 

In researching for my Higher Wider Deeper project I have been trying to see what pre-requisits I would have to take before applying to the Master's Program. And for my first choice school the University of Utah there are 25 other credits you need to take. That would take a year of schooling post-under graduate. 

CSD 2200: Physics of Speech and Hearing CSD 2201: Physics of Speech & Hearing- Lab CSD 3100: Phonetics CSD 3120: Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech CSD 4400: Language Science and Hearing Mechanism CSD 4500: Introduction to Audiology CSD 5380: Speech & Language Development CSD 5520: Aural Rehabilitation 

ECSE 340 Week 4

This week as we were learning how to write an intervention plan in class, I was extremely overwhelmed. Even just writing the goal, I did not know how I was going to do it. Then we went into our infants home and administered the Ages and Stages test, and not only did it begin to make more sense. But I was able to see it come together, as we talked about and witnessed the babies skills. Now this doesn't seem as daunting and the motivation is starting to really kick in. 

My question is how do I know if the baby is ready to move onto the next skill or not?

ECSE Week 4

This week we learned about a few really useful things. Learning more about the crisis cycle and how different people go through it. As we were talking about it, I immediately started thinking of myself and what my triggers were and how I respond. This has also helped me see others and how they deal with things, and how to help them and not hinder them. I think that this should be explained more wide-spread to help people through there normal crisis. 

I was talking to a speech therapist about a program that is about to open at home in Las Vegas. That they are offering part time master's programs to teachers who exclusively work in the school now. And that the full-time starts in just a few months for their inaugural class.