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Guest Speaker Report(Johnny)

Professor Barrett's son came to our class to tell us what it is like to be five years old. Johnny told us that he broke his arm but only knows this because his father has told him this before. Johnny’s speech is impeccable and has a wide vocabulary. It was also interesting to me that he is very tall for his age. The typical 2.5 year old has a vocabulary of 600 words (Boyd).Johnny confuses his left and right sometimes as seen when Johnny tries to mirror his father by standing on one foot and balancing‍. He is also in the correct one of Piaget’s stages- the preoperational stage. Johnny still succumbs to irreversibility, “The inability to mentally reverse actions or ideas,” (Boyd). Johnny was also not shy at all when he sang and danced to "what makes you beautiful" by one direction in front of the entire class. Johnny is also new to saying "I don't know" which is great because most children try to talk their way out of things to be correct. Furthermore when Johnny did the counting with the dots, he distinguished the difference between the two and said that both had the same amount of dots where most five year old would say they are different amounts.

References: Barrett, Johnny. Growth & Development. Saint John's River #|State College, Orange Park. 17 July 2014. Guest Speaker. Boyd, Denise Roberts., and Helen L. Bee. // Lifespan Development //. Sixth ed. Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon/ Print

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