Special Education

CHILD MENTAL DIS

Case Analysis

One of the most difficult problems that come before researchers in early child psychology relates to identification and dis related with infants and young children . As infants and very young children do not possess advanced language and expression skills , researchers are forced to rely upon relative factors to assess the degree of dis , or whether if any dis exists at all . This explains why even after years of research and observation by numerous researchers , there are many untouched spots in early child psychology that continue to

create doubts among psychologist . The deviations shown by young children may belong to a number of categories including Autism , reading dis Attention deficiency dis and mental retardation . It should be noted here that even mental retardation is of several degrees , ranging from mild to severe , which is difficult to determine in the early developmental phase of a child

The case of Adrian , at the first glance , appears to be one of a child suffering from at least a degree of behavioral and development dis According to the facts pointed out in the case study , Adrian demonstrates cognitive and learning difficulties , although not perceptual problems . A normal child of the 4 years age has a vocabulary that spans sufficient expressions and articulations . Normal children have intense level of observation and inquisitiveness that helps them in not only understanding language , but also to create and form new and complex expressions . Upward from 2 .5 years , normal children start to display innovations...