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Developmental Assessment

Brandi is an 11-year-old fifth grader who is currently attending Hollywood Park Elementary School. The oldest of three children, Brandi lives the majority of her time with her mother, Andrea, her step-father, Bob, and her two younger step-brothersùBob Jr. (six years old) and Dylan (one year old). Every two weeks, Brandi spends her entire weekend with her biological father, Jim and his wife, Vanessa. Since Brandi is principally living with her mother, the perspective of the family is represented solely by Andrea, Bob and Brandi's step-siblings.

According to Andrea, her delivery of Brandi was considered to be a normal vaginal birth. From birth until her early elementary school years, Brandi was a healthy and normal child who met her developmental milestones. She sat upright at four months of age, crawled at six months and learned how to walk at 11 months.

Based on Andrea's report, Brandi was babbling from an early age (12 months) and was able to speak in full sentences fluently at the age of 20 months. Until the last two years, Brandi did not display any difficulties in holding conversations and reading. Before this period, Andrea was able to determine whether Brandi had difficulties with reading because Brandi used to read her books out loud. However, since Brandi has stopped reading her books out loud, Andrea has not been able to keep track of Brandi's language development. If not for the FCAT results and the teacher's reports, Andrea admitted that she would not have known about Brandi's problems in this area of development.

Over the last two years, Brandi has been exhibiting increasing academic difficulties in the classroom, especially in Reading. Her Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) score suggests that she is reading at a third grade level. Brandi's teacher informed Andrea that Brandi "is not able to utilize sophisticated comprehension strategies such as her understanding of the background know...

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