Avaliação da psicomotricidade no processo ensino-aprendizagem de criança com Síndrome de Down na educação infantil

Abstract

The study was established using a field research, by using exploratory and descriptive methods, with the purpose to evaluate the accomplishment of the psychomotricity praxis in the teaching learning process and the interaction of children with Down’s Syndrome in Infant Education, according to their teachers. The research was developed between February and June 2007 with 10 teachers from the Elementary School, Fortaleza (Brazil), and 6 parents of Down’s Syndrome children with ages between 2 and 8 years old. The tool used was a half-structuralized questionnaire applied to the teachers and anamnesis questionnaire applied to the parents. The data had been grouped through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program for Windows, version 13.0. it was used content analysis that allows inferences on the acquired data. The research showed that a hundred percent of the teachers known the psychomotricity praxis and most of them use it as a teaching tool in the interaction and learning process. The psychomotor elements are elaborated in the functional and relational aspects, in which advantages reflect on the improvement of social interaction and the psychomotor development of the children. The biggest difficulty presented by the children refers to the language, related to speaking, reading and writing. The questionnaire answered by the parents shows the total or partial unfamiliarity of the Down’s Syndrome before the birth of the children. The research concluded that the psychomotor praxis helps on the learning process and the children’s interaction, reflecting on their development, specially when applied on the first few months of life.