Aspectos percepto-motores e cognitivos do desenvolvimento de crianças com Síndrome de Down do município de Vitória/ES

• Autor(a) principal: Bonomo, Lívia Maria Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/2999
• topic: Down Syndrome; Child development; Psychomotor performance; Intelligence; Desenvolvimento infantil; Desempenho psicomotor; Psicologia; Crianças; Inteligência; Down, Síndrome de; 159.9

Most of the currently effective literature states that the development of children with Down Syndrome occurs with delay when compared with that of children with typical neuropsychomotor development. At the same time, studies have shown that stimulation, either at school or a clinic, plays an important role in the development of these children"s process by providing more opportunities for experience, possibly minimizing the large deficits associated with this population. The present research aims to evaluate the perceptual, motor and cognitive aspects of the development of children with Down Syndrome, investigating the possible interdependence between the motor and the structure of intelligence. This research involved 10 children with Down Syndrome aged between one and five years. Eight of these children were enrolled in the Municipal Center for Child Education of Vitória/ES, one in a private educational institution in the same city and one did not attend any school. For data collection it was used a structured observation of motor behavior to describe the patterns of locomotion, manipulation, stability, sensory and body perception, besides the adapted Piagetian Clinical Method for observation and description of the construction of the concepts of permanent object, physical causality, space and time concerning the sensory-motor stage of cognitive development. It was also applied an anamnesis with the primary career of the child to contextualize the routine of the subjects. The items related to motor skills and sensorymotor concepts were categorized in a qualitative way from pre-established criteria. The data were processed using an exploratory and descriptive statistical analysis. It was observed that the major motor deficits and higher cognitive gaps were presented by younger children in the sample. In the same way, the greatest interdependence in the relation among the different items occurred in these same children. It is believed that, with the passing of years, the development process of these children tends to get closer than it is typically expected, confirming the importance of long-term stimulation for children with Down syndrome.