Field Observation

Field Observation

                Penny did take a little while to warm up to the class but once she did it was easy to see clear overgeneralizations, holophrastic and telegraphic usage, as well as consonant clusters. At the start Penny was demonstrating mainly holophrastic patterns; it seems that maybe this was according because she was nervous. After the third or four group sat with Penny she was leaning more toward telegraphic speech. I noticed that some consonant clusters were present, at one point Penny said “Kitty Kat.” When she said it the K’s were more present than the vowels in the words. Also the first time Penny identified the “Guy” it was difficult to understand, it seemed she was only saying the G. Toward the end of class Penny started to overgeneralize. I can’t blame her after being asked “what’s this” or “what color is this” about a million and one times I would start to just say what I thought the person wanted to hear too. Many times Penny would identify an object or photo as lion and then make the sound of a lion. Penny had a great grasp of understanding novel sentences. When asked if she wanted to try a toy she was extremely responsive and when asked to share she was clear that she was not interested.