Desempenho motor de aluno com paralisia cerebral discinética frente à adaptação das propriedades físicas de recurso pedagógico

• Main Author: Gonçalves, Adriana Garcia [UNESP]
• Publication Date: 2013
• Other Authors: Braccialli, Lígia Maria Presumido [UNESP], Carvalho, Sebastião Marcos Ribeiro de [UNESP]
• Format: Article
• Language: eng; por
• Source: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Download full: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-65382013000200009; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/75006
• topic: Cerebral palsy; Educational resource; Special education

The main purpose of this study was to analyze the modified physical properties of an educational resource for facilitating the handling of a child with dyskinetic cerebral palsy. The participant of the study was a six year old child with dyskinetic cerebral palsy enrolled in a regular early childhood education classroom. The educational resource that was selected was a brick game, in which the physical properties of weight, size and texture had been modified. The analysis was made regarding the quality of upper limb movement to the variables: righting index, scalar displacement (s), average speed (As) and time (t). The results showed that combined large size and heavy weight did not have a satisfactory outcome, affecting both grasping the educational resource and fitting. There was also inconsistency in children with cerebral palsy's responses. There is variation in the results, though a standard cannot be established. Thus, this study contributed to understanding the motor responses of a child with dyskinetic cerebral palsy when participating in a fitting activity with educational resources in which the physical properties had been modified.