DEVELOPMENT OF FINE MOBILITY IN CHILDREN WITH SPASTIC CEREBRAL PALSY THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF PSYCHOMOTOR THERAPY

Abstract

The objective of the study was to propose an alternative of fun strategies that promote the development of fine mobility, which generates autonomous actions in boys and girls from 4 to 5 years old with spastic cerebral palsy from different educational institutions in the city of Azogues, Province of Cañar in Ecuador. Information was gathered about the development of fine mobility, and fun strategies were described, analyzed and applied, which consisted in studying the possibilities to conjugate the objectives, methodologies, pedagogical, didactic patterns and techniques of regular and special education, in order to generate spaces of inclusion based on mutual enrichment that eliminate the differences applied with boys and girls, which because of reasons of physiological, psychological or mental reasons are not found within the “normal” patterns of development, and to allow them to adapt to the demands of the environment and to develop their potentialities. In the therapy carried out there was collaboration from parents and the whole family to achieve greater effectiveness from the programmed sessions, the main point being that the activities and games performed in the sessions be done at home. The children treated evidenced a level of improvement of 30 % in motor skills.