Instructional Objectives for this activity:

Examine issues regarding interviewing the various groups in the special population.

In this assignment, utilize the skills you learned in the learning activity and apply these techniques to an interview. Select someone with whom you have a rapport to make the exercise successful.

You will interview a friend or family member who is elderly, a child, or who has a developmental disability, about an event or incident in his or her daily life. Summarize the story they tell you and identify the set of interview techniques that you utilized. Explain why you used these interview techniques. Discuss what considerations you took into account prior to interviewing this individual.

Write a 2-3 page paper (300-400 words) summarizing their story. Identify and define any techniques you utilized during the interview. Compare and contrast at least two distinct techniques in your paper.

Reference

Gosselin, D.K.(2006). Smart talk: Contemporary interviewing and interrogation (Custom edition). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.