Child Case Study
Who? 5-year old boy (Friends Nephew)
Name? “JD”
Where? In the Family Room and the Kitchen
How many family members are present?
Brother(3)
Aunt (20)
Grandma (60)
(PEER SETTING) 30-minute observation
Friday 2/25/05
4:00PM Child sitting on floor in front of TV getting ready to watch Ed, Edd, and Eddy.
4:02PM Lying down on pillow.
4:04PM Asks aunt for banana.
4:06PM Eats banana in kitchen
4:08PM Eating and watching from kitchen.
4:10PM Finishes banana and sits in family room watching cartoon.
4:12PM Sitting and watching TV with little brother.
4:14PM Commercial and brother and him reenacting cartoon.
4:16PM Cartoon is back on and both are still playing rough.
4:18PM Aunt tells them to stop and they don’t. They are still playing rough.
4:20PM Child stops playing rough with younger brother and sit down watching TV.
4:22PM Watching Ed, Edd, and Eddy.
4:24PM Watching Ed, Edd, and Eddy.
4:26PM Laughing and still watching Ed, Edd, and Eddy.
4:28PM Show is over child begins to play with Aunt’s Boxer Dog.
4:30PM Child continues to play with dog (brother joins in later).
Who? 5-year old boy (Friends Nephew)
Name? “JD”
Where? In the Kitchen
How many family members are present?
Brother(3)
Aunt (20)
Grandma (60)
Sister (6)
(FAMILY INTERACTION) 30-minute observation
Monday 3/1/05
2:00PM Kids come over.
2:02PM Child pulled homework out right away and Aunt sits to help.
2:04PM Aunt helps child with reading for reading log.
2:06PM Child practicing reading skills with his reading book.
2:08PM Child finished reading book
2:10PM Child worked on his writing skills. JD writes two sentences every three days.
2:12PM Child is still working on his writing skills.
2:14PM Child is still working on his writing skills, he is almost finished.
2:16PM Child finishes his sentence writing and works on his math homework.
2:18PM Child works on math problems.
2:20PM Child is counting with his fingers.
2:22PM Child is still counting with his fingers on another problem.
2:24PM Child finishes his homework. JD sits on couch and watches Jimmy Neutron.
2:26PM Child watches TV still.
2:28PM TV Show ends and child tries to read his dinosaur book.
2:30PM Child gives up on reading and goes back to watching the next episode on Nicktoons.
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