PCA, Kalena
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Parent-Child Activity
Participant: Kalena, Mom and Dad
Other:Sibling (Jaz, age 2)
Date:May 18, 2006
Communication: ASL
Duration: 20 minutes
Setting: Living room floor
Materials: Variety of toys (including cars, stuffed animals, etc) and tools (hammer, wrench, screwdriver, etc.)
Jaz bangs screwdriver on floor. Mom looks at her.
Mom: No, don’t bang, easy (1:42)
Jaz bangs screwdriver more gently, she looks up at her mother
Mom: Better, start now? Okay. (to Kal) You, put in the center, something big
Kal: B-I-G(looks at items)
Mom: Big, which? (2:01)
Kal touches something and looks at her mom
Mom: Decide for yourself, which?
Kal puts a number “4” from a large puzzle in the center
Mom: More? Where’s big? (2:15)
Kal adds a picture frame and a hammer, a wrench and a can. Mom high-fives her. (2:40)
Kal picks up a Hello Kitty doll and looks at mom
Mom: Fine
Kal puts the doll in the can, she picks up another toy and puts it in the can
Mom: Many, many (2:53)
Kal picks up a cap and puts it in
Mom: Is that big?
Kal: No (She takes it out), oops
Mom: Be careful
Kalena takes something else and adds it, then she adds a Frisbee ring, then a toy microphone
Mom: Many, good, good
Kal touches something else to add
Mom: Big?
Kal: No (she lets it go)
Mom: How many are there?
Kalena: (counts) 12 (3:27)
Mom: (points to hammer) the top and bottom are the same, (Kal counted hammer twice)
Kal: No, not the same (takes out three tools)
Mom: Ok good, ok, all of these are big, now how many small? (to husband) get those out of the way (clears sorting space) (to Kalena) small
Kal brings six items into the sorting space
Mom: Good! (high fives her), how many? (4:18)
Kal: (Counts), 6
Mom: (looks at paper) Now…
Kal: I want to see (4:36)
Mom: (shows Kal the paper), now, which has a really funny feel to it
Kal touches one items and pulls her hand away
Mom: You’re right! (to dad) I told her to find something that feels funny
Kal touches same item again and pulls her hand away
Mom: Come on, please
Kal pulls stuffed cat out of can
Mom: Anything else?
Kal picks up “4” from a large puzzle
Mom: Yeah, (touches it) that feels kind of strange
Kal touches it again and makes a face, she picks up a stuffed caterpillar and shows it to mom. Mom is looking at dad, other daughter just asked for a doughnut, dad asks mom if she can have it, mom says no, she already had one
Mom: Is there more, or is that it?
Kal: (counts them) 1,2,3, there’s 3
Mom: I see something else over here
Kal: (picks up item her mother is looking at) Oh!
Mom: That feels funny too doesn’t it?
Kal touches it and pulls her hand away
Mom: Right
Kal blows the item out of her hand
Mom clears sorting space
Mom: Now what here is smooth, really smooth (5:52)
Kal touches a cap (?) and looks at her mother
Mom: I don’t know, it’s your decision
Dad: What’s really smooth?
Kal hands him the cap, dad points to something else
Kal picks up the item her father is pointing to and gives it to her father.
Dad: let me feel it (dad rubs his finger along the top) smooth, try that one, (points to the cap Kal is holding, she touches it), that’s a little bit bumpy, right? See, feel this one, then feel that one
Kal: You have to turn it around
Dad: Yes, but most of it, this one feels smooth, that one is a bit rough
Kal picks up the caterpillar and looks at her father
Dad: That’s kind of bumpy too
Mom: Smooth, smooth, smooth
Kalena picks up Frisbee ring (6:40)
Mom: Yes, that’s fine
Dad: What else, there’s more
Kal picks up a cat stuffed animal, she turns around to show her mother who isn’t there (went to stop the 2 year old from doing something)
Mom picks up the can and feels it, Kal takes it and feels it
Mom: That’s kind of smooth, what about this (mom picks up something and shows Kal)
Kal: No
Mom: How about this? (picks up the #4)
Kal: Yes
Mom: Kind of (she picks up Mr. Potato Head glasses),
Kal: Yes
Dad takes the glasses and puts them on
Mom: (to Kal) that’s funny (7:22)
Kal nods,
Kal: Give me (she takes the glasses from her father and puts them on)
Mom: How many are here?
Kal: 4?
Mom: Look at dad
Dad points to an item Kal missed, Kal looks
Mom: There’s one more
Kal: 5
Mom high fives her (7:47)
Mom: Is there anything here that’s sticky?
Kal: No, nothing
Mom: Nothing sticky?
Dad shakes his head in agreement, nothing in the pile is sticky
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START
Mom: Okay, (looks back to paper), find everything that is light in color (8:05)
Kal points to something
Mom: No, not dark, no, bright,
Kal points to something else (the hammer)
Mom: No that’s dark too
Kal looks around, she points to the red car
Mom: (to dad) Is that bright or dark? What do you think?
Dad: I don’t know
Mom: I doubt it, that’s really dark
Kal: But there’s some bright here, if you look all around like this
Mom: Yes but we want really light in color, like you know yellow, or light blue, maybe orange
Kal looks at toys, she picks up the caterpillar
Mom: Yes! That color is light
Kal gets the cat
Mom: Yes, that’s light in color too
Kal picks up a red cap
Mom: No, that’s dark
Kal picks up the can (it is covered in brown construction paper with patches of other colors of paper on it)
Mom: Is that dark or light?
Kal: Look at these spots (points to colored patches)
Mom: Blue, red, brown, black, they’re all dark, we want light bright colors, that’s really not bright (9:00)
Kal: Watch what I can do (puts can on her head)
Mom: We’re looking for colors
Dad takes the can,
Dad: Look here (points to a yellow spot), bright or dark, which?
Kal: Bright (takes glasses off)
Dad: Fine
Mom: What else?
Kal points to caterpillar
Mom: Yes, what else?
Kal picks up white Buzz Lightyear toy
Mom: Yes, why?
Kal: it’s white, the same as these other two toys (points) (9:46)
Mom: Okay, right, what else? There’s more
Kal: That’s it
Mom: There’s more
Kal: (points to hammer and other tools), look, look, nothing white
Mom: right, nothing here (points to tools) but there’s more (points to a variety of things, each time Kal shakes her head no, gets to the yellow 4- Kal stops to think, then picks it up)
Mom: Yes (Mom points to a light orange toy)
Kal: Yes! (picks it up)
Mom: You have to pay attention, look at them all carefully, how many? (10:30)
Kal: (counts) 5
Mom: good (high-fives her),(light colored toys are cleared from sorting space) okay, now let’s see if we can find dark colors
Kal points to can
Mom: Yes
Kal picks up a black cap
Mom: Yes
Kal picks up a tool
Mom: Yes
Kal points to the red car
Mom: Okay, as long as we think of red as a dark color, that’s fine
Kal picks up something else red and looks at her mother
Mom: Why do you keep looking at me? You know
Kal: I think finished, (she picks up Buzz Lightyear toy)
Mom: Before we talked about light and dark, I don’t understand (11:25)
Dad: Are you serious or are you fooling around? You know the difference, is that light or dark? (Kal drops the toy, and reaches for a red toy microphone)
Mom: That’s fine
Kal yells into the microphone
Mom: ssssh, the camera can hear
Kal: Where’s Karen?
Mom: In the other room
I come in to see what is happening, Kal laughs
Mom: She just yelled into the microphone, (to Kal) is there more?
Kal picks up a wrench and puts it in
Kal: Finished, (she looks around) finished, (spots something and reaches for it) No that’s not (an orange paint brush)
Mom: No, that’s bright, there’s more
Kal reaches for hammer
Mom: Yes, see the black? That’s dark, how many?
Kal: 1,2,3,4 (four is a tool) (12:37)
Mom: Look at that one (number 4) it’s bright
Kal: But it’s the same (points to other tools)
Mom: (puts it with 3 other tools) See, dark, dark, that one’s light
Kal: Oh yeah, forget about that one, finished
(sorting space cleared)
Mom looks at the paper
Mom: Now look for short things, not long, short
Kal puts a group of things together
Mom: Look over there
Kal looks and adds something to her pile
Mom: Ok, good, finished? (13:33)
Kal: Yes
Mom: Ok, now we want long
Kal moves all tools over, she points to “bright” tool and shakes her head
Mom: Not long? Well okay
She adds the microphone
Dad: There’s one more
Kal looks and grabs the can
Mom: Well, okay, there’s one more
Kal grabs Buzz Lightyear (14:32)
Mom: Is that long?
Dad: (points to caterpillar) is this long or short, which?
Kal adds frame
Dad: what about this (holds up the caterpillar)
Kal: (adds the caterpillar and counts them) 10 (15:08)
STOP
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Kal lays down
Mom: Now, which things are really noisy
Kal points to the hammer with her foot
Mom: Come on, sit right, why is that noisy?
Kal: Because you bang with it (15:32)
Mom: It’s for banging, ok, good
Dad: There’s more, what else
Mom: I think one more
Kal points, mom hands her the screwdriver,
Kal: No not that, other, (mom hands her the microphone)
Mom: Yes, (she laughs), finished, I think that’s all of them (high-fives her), how about red (16:10)
Kal picks up the car and looks at her mother
Mom: nods
Kal drops it in her lap
Dad: There’s more
Kal gets the wrench, she picks up another tool and shows it to her mother
Mom: Is that red? (She shows it to dad) I think this is more brown, what do you think? Is this red
Dad: Let me see (he takes the tool) No that’s brown, (he puts it to the side) look carefully, (he gives Kal the Mr. Potato Head glasses)
Red things cleared from sorting space
Mom looks at the paper
Mom: I don’t think there’s anything old here
Dad: Old, no
Mom: New? No, (to Kal) I’m curious, can you eat any of these things?
Kal: NO! of course not (17:10)
Mom: No, you can’t eat any of those, okay, how about, which is a toy and which is not a toy
Kal takes all toys in center, touches tool shakes her head no, takes toy next to tool
Mom: (points to hammer and other tools) not those, why? Why aren’t those toys?
Kal: Because the hammer is for banging, and they’re for dads and moms
Mom: Okay, these you can play with
Kal: (counts toys, gets up to 12)12 (18:00)
Mom: 12 things you can play with, good, good
Kal cleans up sorting area
Mom: Which is heavy which is not heavy?
Kal picks up the hammer and the wrench
Mom: Put them down, which is heavy?
Kal: 1,2 that’s it
Mom: That’s it, okay, good, okay, which things can roll? (18:43)
Kal picks up the can and rolls it
Mom: Good girl, anything else?
Kal tries to roll the screwdrivers
Mom: Kind of, good, is there anything else that rolls?
Kal reaches for hammer
Mom: No
Kal rolls the caterpillar (19:06)
Mom: Okay, kind of, look at that one (points to car)
Kal rolls the car
Mom: Use the wheels
Kal: Oops, (she pushes the car using the wheels)
Mom: Ok, good, you’re smart, okay, I think we’re done (19:38)