Family Interview and Participation

Family Interview and Participation

 I met Katrina`s family at children playground in the late morning when her parents had taken her with his brothers to go and have fun.  I was interested by the way she was behaving like any other child. I did a follow up through two emails and three phone calls. In order to complete this interview I used Ages and stages, SE, FACETS family interview worksheets and early intervention family consideration worksheet.

Childs history

Katrina is 8 years old. She is the third born in the family of Joe. The Joe`s lives only 15 minutes’ drive from Texas city  and she was born 15 weeks early and she weighed less than 2 pounds at the time of birth. Due to her extreme maturity she suffered from many extreme complications such as FASD, autism and ADHD. She also has colostomy which has been caused by chronic constipation. She is always jovial. She loves music and she loves to snuggle. She does not like communicating though she is sassy and challenging at times. She is very intelligent and she is able to read around 200 sight words. All Joe`s children are schooling going and Katrina has been enrolled in the same primary school as her other siblings. Her family is always by her side and concerned about her health due to the several complications she has.

Child and family strengths/ priorities

Family:

Her mother is able to give her full time care because she is a housewife. Katrina’s family is caring and loving, involved and supportive family, a family which is proud of her and not ashamed to be associated with her.

Health and medical:

She is a healthy child and due to compilation she has to visit the hospital regularly for checkup even is not for treatment. She is has a big challenge in school because of colostomy.

Adaptive/ self help

Family shares most of the meals.

Katrina she good in eating and she is not choosy like her older brother. She will take anything her mother has offered her. Due to the autism she is not sociable though at school she has a friend who understands her better.

Cognitive

Katrina has interest in open door activities such as swimming, walking in the park, riding bikes unlike her siblings who love indoor activities. She also likes listening to stories and watching documentaries. Katrina is performing well in school considering her medical condition even better than her brother who attends school without missing classes like her. She likes also playing with bricks and she is a creative child. She can design several items such as house and a car.

Communication (expressive and receptive)

Katrina is a good listener and follows to instruction to the later and this value has helped her a lot in school considering her medical condition. She is good in both spoken and written words though she stammers. She understands every action or deed and if provoked she is unable to utter any word and what she dies is only crying to signify she has been hurt.

Physical / motor

She walks well without any aid only that she cannot walk at the pace as her brothers. She does not need any assistance to feed, bath and dress. She does all these by herself. Once in every three months she goes for scheduled therapy.

Social/ Emotional

Katrina she is such an adorable child who loves to be always close to her family. She   enjoys interactions with her family and thus why she always has a destination to travel during summer.  She interacts with her siblings and friends during playing and she is not child who will always seek for attention. When she is not reading, watching or playing, you will definitely find her listening to her favorite music. During weekends she loves to engage in different activities with her family like gardening and cleaning of the house.  She likes travelling and unlike he siblings each destination she has to have one or two friends.

Child and Family priorities

Katrina has been given special attention by her parents. They interact with her most of the time through one on one so that they may know if a need may arise to change her normal routine. Her room has been pampered with more toys and she has been enrolled in several physical activities like swimming and playing golf.

Child and family routines

Each day after school the children are taken to the supermarket so that they may get snacks for the following day at school. Through this the children are able to break the monotony of school during a week. Each Friday afternoon the family takes a walk in the park. Each summer holiday they go for holiday. Katrina prepares the garden once in a month. Katrina before retiring to bed she watches a documentary and then listens to a music which sooths her to sleep.