Tecnologia educativa sobre os impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 no desenvolvimento psicomotor e aprendizagem de crianças com transtorno do espectro autista

Abstract

Social isolation as a strategy to contain the transmissibility of SARS-COV-2, brought the loss of external references of the expanded social context, represented especially by school and work. The WHO created measures to face adversity in families, with the aim of strengthening relationships, autonomy and a sense of competence. In this context, all the influence that the pandemic situation brought to society mainly affected children with atypical development and their families. The DSM-V classifies autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder and constitutes a new category called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which includes autism, Asperger's disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett's disorder and development. In the publication of ICD-11, all pathologies are also called Autistic Spectrum Disorders. The incidence of ASD has increased considerably in recent years, specifically in the United States in the year 2000, when the prevalence was 1/150 children, and currently 1/54 children and in Brazil, there are an estimated 2 million children. The objective of this research was to develop an educational technology on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychomotor development and learning of children with ASD for teachers and professionals in Early Childhood Education. This is a methodological study that used the ADDIE Instructional Design and was anchored in its first three phases (Analysis, Design and Development) for the elaboration of the distance education course, defining the learning objectives and the constitution of the course's teaching plan. The first technical product is an integrative review entitled: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the learning of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, which will be submitted to the Brazilian Journal on Health Promotion (RBPS). The second is the teaching plan, schedule and didactic material of a course in the EaD modality with methodology and didactic resources applied in the self-instructional format, on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychomotor development and learning of children with ASD, with a workload of 40 hours. The construction of an educational technology involves different aspects in its production, ranging from curation to the evaluation of the didactic material produced. Constituting a course in the EaD modality is a recurring challenge, understanding the responsibility of selecting instructive and validated contents, which generate an impact on professional practice. Most continuing education courses on ASD are aimed at health professionals, considering that they are aligned with the clinic and nosology. The adequacy of the theme in an instructional and training proposal for education professionals translates into an attempt to revitalize the look at children with neurodevelopmental disorders.