✔Checkpoint Questions 1 Johnvic is a 2.

5-year-old boy you meet at a pediatric clinic because he has a

“tummy ache.” He lives with his single mother in a one-bedroom apartment on third floor of a rent-
controlled building. His mother tells you he doesn’t get outside much because she’s afraid to walk to the
local park because it is “owned” by a street gang. Jonathan sleeps with her in a double bed. Yesterday.
He got up before her; she found him sitting on a kitchen counter near the stove. She adds, “His father
wants him to be a baseball player. I just want him to learn enough words so he can say when he needs
to use a bathroom.”

1. What are some safety precautions you would want to discuss with Johnvic’s mother?
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2. The walls of this family’s apartment are painted with automobile paint his father secured from his job
as a car painter. Would you be concerned with the use of such paint?
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3. Johnvic does not yet speak in sentences. What questions would you want to ask his mother to help
determine if his development is delayed?
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