Week 7 Team Discussion: Client Assessment at Your Field Site
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Week 7 Team Discussion: Client Assessment at Your Field Site
At GiGi’s Playhouse, a non-profit that serves individuals with Down syndrome and their families, offering free-of-cost programs, the assessment process before micro-level practice with their target population involves the assessment of intrapersonal variables. Hepworth et al. (2017) advanced that while identifying components of a broad biophysical assessment, cognitive/perceptual, affective, behavioral, and motivational facets should be taken into account.
Firstly, an evaluation of individuals with Down syndrome’s physical well-being and body functioning is needed. This entails assessing the patient’s physical appearance, medical history, contraindications, and problems that may exist with the use of other drugs/substances (Hepworth et al., 2017). Knowledge of these facts can assist in adjusting the technique of literacy tutoring to combat whatever demand or concern there might be.
Secondly, growth and development must be assessed, especially regarding cognitive and perceptual abilities, because these clients have different levels of intellectual disability depending on the degree of Down syndrome. Evaluating their intellectual ability, ability to make good decisions, ability to accurately assess reality, and ability to change course when they have made a mistake (Hepworth et al., 2017) helps infer the clients’ ability to learn and hence helpful in developing ways of teaching them.
Thirdly, self-regulation of affect should be addressed since children with Down syndrome can have affective problems or experience affective disorders. Assessing how much they are expressing, what type of emotions they are displaying, and whether they are displaying proper feelings for the occasion as a class (Hepworth et al., 2017) will only help determine possible contributors to learning and encourage understanding.
This assessment process is suitable for the target population at GiGi’s Playhouse because it considers the various aspects of the life of people with Down syndrome. Biophysical, cognitive/perceptual, and effectual functioning must be considered so that the literacy tutoring programs offered by the organization will provide the students with the best environment possible to accept, embrace, and feel welcome in society.
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Hepworth, D. H., Rooney, R. H., Rooney, G. D., Strom-Gottfried, K., & Larsen, J. A. (2017). Direct social work practice: Theory and skills (10th ed.). Cengage Learning.