MAED 131 – GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

PROFESSOR: DR. AMELITA P. GIVERTZ

Reading Development of a 5-year-old:

A Case Study
CLIENT DESCRIPTION
• Luxe Griffin
• 5 Years Old Filipino Citizen
• Male
• Restless
• Enjoys watching videos on Youtube
• Only child of the family
PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT
• The mother wants his son to learn reading and develop comprehension.

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES AND

PROTOCOL
• Repetitive reading and word repetition
• Observation Tool on Reading Teaching Practices.
• Watching nursery rhymes, Peppa pig, paw patrol, other educational
videos on youtube
MEDICAL / DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY

• Client has no vision/hearing problems

• No health problems

FAMILIAL PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY

• No psychiatric history
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
• 2020-2021 studied in Basag Day Care Center
• 2021-2022 study in Banza Elementary School- Kindergarten
(on-going)
HOME BEHAVIORAL / SOCIAL
• Easily distracted
• Friendly and outgoing
• Easily get along with everyone
ASSESSMENTS USED AND APPROPRIATE
INTERPRETATIONS
• Youtube videos:
 phonics song for children, alphabet song/letter
sounds/signing for babies/ASL
Peppa pig, Paw Patrol
Nursery Songs
• Reading Sheets / Activity Sheets
• A direct observation of teaching reading practices was
carried out.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
• Regarding teaching reading practices, it was found that the
most used is the use of teaching resources (e.g., stories,
songs), direct instruction, and functional knowledge of
reading (e.g., summary, questions, comprehension
exercises). To a lesser extent, the parents of the client used
literacy activities, reinforcement through praise (e.g.,
tangible or verbal), reading and writing, and work on
alphabetic knowledge.
TREATMENT PLAN AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Luxe Griffin was still learning to decode and used a number of
different strategies given by his parents. He used his
knowledge of phonics as one way to decode words. He would
split a word up into individual phonemes and then blend these
together to read the word aloud.
• Luxe Griffin is continuing to learn to read Tagalog words and
English words. His parents still teach him reading through
reading activity sheets and videos.
REFERENCES:
• https://ukla.org/ukla_resources/case-study-of-amelia-
a-five-year-old-reader-who-enjoys-reading-at-home/
• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/
fpsyg.2020.01083/full
• https://www.eu-jer.com/reading-difficulty-and-its-
remediation-a-case-study