Avaliação e ensino do repertório de leitura em indivíduos com Síndrome de Down com o uso do software educacional Mestre

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Nelma Maria Felix Capi Villaça de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16516
• topic: Equivalência de estímulos; Software educativo Mestre®; Leitura; Mestre (Programa educativo para criancas); Sindrome de Down -- Pacientes -- Educacao; Reading; Stimulus equivalence Mestre® educational software; Down s Syndrome; Mestre® educational software; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::FUNDAMENTOS DA EDUCACAO::PSICOLOGIA EDUCACIONAL

The increasing number of students with special educational needs in regular education demands for new methodologies which can help the teacher in his professional activities. Reading is the basis for acquiring further academic repertoires, as well as for the individual s participation in society. Unfortunately difficulty in reading has been identified in different grades of the academic period of Brazilian s students. Reading has been an object of study in different approaches, including the Behavior Analysis, which presents studies based on the stimulus-equivalence paradigm, with good results in teaching basic reading repertoires (words and phrases). A part of the studies was carried out using the Mestre® software; however, there are very few studies in which the participants are only individuals with Down s Syndrome. The objectives of this study are evaluating the reading repertoire of individuals with Down s Syndrome and implementing a program to teach reading using the Mestre® educational software. The participants were four students with Down s Syndrome, with ages between nine and twenty-five. The study was developed in three stages: 1) Evaluation of the participants previous reading repertoire. 2) Implementation of a teaching procedure with 15 words composed by simple syllables, focusing on the relations between stimulus of different modalities: spoken word (A), picture (B), printed word (C). The CC, AB, AC, CE and AE relations were taught and the emergence of the BC, CB, CD and BE relations was tested. 3) Application of Generalized Reading Test with news words and phrases composed by simple syllables. The repertoire of four participants was evaluated and three of them were submitted to teaching procedure. It was verified that two participants showed satisfactory performances in the trained relations as well as in the tested relations, reaching 100% correct results in expressive reading (CD relation); on the other hand, the levels in the word and phrase in the Generalized Reading Test were low, leading to assume that they were not under the control of minimal units (syllables). The participant that did not complete the teaching procedure showed positive performance changes, compared to the previously evaluated repertoire. Taking into account the short training period (a maximum of 13 hours and 35 minutes) and the number of sessions (a maximum of 21 sessions) and also the extremely small initial reading repertoire, the conclusions are that it is possible to teach reading based on the stimulus equivalence and that the Mestre® software is a valuable tool to improve reading to students with Down s Syndrome