Cognitive Development Case Study

Conner overall scared of about everything. Most children of his age are not scared to fall or grabs something hot because they have not grasped the idea of falling or something burning them but Conner does not have the concept to know things will hurt him, but with his mental and physical struggles this is not uncommon to be scared, worried and unsure that everything will hurt him. He hides and keeps to himself a lot, but tries to fit in or play with other children. He done not have a lot of reasoning skills and is behind in cognitive skills. His emotions are all over the place. He also does not have a sense of himself as an individual and is yet to find a personality.

Cognitive Skills

Similarly, to Connors physical development his cognitive development is also low. At the age of two his vocabulary should be growing, beginning to think and to intuitively but still think for himself. Where I have seen Conner throughout his life but studied him more over the last weeks. His characteristics and vocabulary have change. He is building his language, with a few more words. He says mom, dad, door, car, truck, eat, my, Sarah, toy, cup, papa, red, and blue (can say red and blue but does not know the colors yet). When saying the alphabet, the only can say our A B C E S T P. He is yet to speak more than two words at one time, he will say things like my

Cognitive development in the area of language looks to be a slow process for Connor. Unlink in motor skills he does not seem eager to learn. He does not demonstrate an inclination to be able to talk at the time frame he should as a two- year old boy. Additionally, while playing games with his dog figures it is helping him to count, learn colors and talk. He does not even know that he is learning while playing. This is also helping him transfer knowledge and apply his learning to other everyday