Working With Other Professionals

Assignment 3-Working with the Area INCO

I shall be discussing a case study which involves managing the behaviour of a young child. It is formulated to give an overview of how this behaviour impacts the child and the other children, as well as looking at how I managed effective partnerships with other professionals, such as the area inclusion officer , my Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO), the child’s parents and of course the child.

Case Study

Bertie, a 3 year old boy has a twin sister and a slightly older sibling that attends the local Primary School. Bertie has extremely bad behaviour and will not listen to staff members. He finds it hard to play with other children and will bite, hit and scream at them. Bertie’s behaviour is becoming increasingly more aggressive and it has now reached the point that other parents are beginning to complain, that he is upsetting their children. A parent has made an unofficial complaint that her son is too frightened to attend the pre-school due to the behaviour of Bertie. The staff have been monitoring the behaviour of Bertie and we have subsequently had a meeting with Bertie’s parents which included his key person to discuss Bertie’s behaviour. Bertie’s parents are just as concerned. During the meeting, his parents discuss how they have also sort help from their doctor. The Doctor examined Bertie and has given the following conclusions, that Bertie’s behaviour could be linked to his traumatic birth, as being the 2nd twin to be born he was starved from oxygen for a few minutes. However, he also said that Bertie may have fluid in his ears which maybe stopping him from hearing and he would subsequently be referring Bertie to a paedetrician for further investigation.

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...Bertie positively, enabling him to ‘enjoy and achieve’ and remember his time at our setting with fondness.

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