Reference no: EM133661756

Case Study:

Liam is five (5) years old, and he has an acquired brain injury which affects his movement, balance, communication, and learning. His mother, Chloe, had a normal pregnancy followed by a prolonged birth leading to Liam attaining a low Apgar score. Liam failed to meet expected milestones during his first year of life and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 13 months of age. Liam lives in rural Australia with his parents and two older siblings aged, 10 and 13 years of age. The family are First Nations Australians. Liam's father is an interstate truck driver which leaves Chloe to care for the children including attending to Liam's cares and needs.

Introduction
A brief introduction of the topic explaining how the response will be organised, and what aspects will be covered. For example, you might lead with a statement around child growth and development (why important to understand the norms) and then lead into disability- stresses for family and perhaps remark that these stressors can be increased for First nations Australian families. Then follow up by why this is an important issue to discuss and explain what you will discuss within.

Remember, keep the introduction short and succinct/targeted.

Discussion paragraphs

Here, you want to note the marking criterion and you could divide this into three (3) corresponding sections.

1. Describe the typical or normal growth and development of the school age child (5- year-old) under the following headings:

o Cognitive development
o Motor development
o Psychosocial development

What to look at here?

o Cognitive development, e.g., look at Piaget and relate to 'typical' development for 5-year-old
o Motor development-what does this look like for the 'typical' 5-year-old
o Psychosocial development-refer to Erikson,

This leads to Q2, so you understand growth and development for a 'typical' 5 year, now think about the child who has a disability (make a nice linking sentence to Q2).