Síndrome de Down: materiais interativos no ensino da educação nutricional

Abstract

Nutritional counseling with children with Down Syndrome (DS) is the way to improve eating disorders, requiring educational tools that help them in a practical way, stimulating the meaningful learning of these children. However, the food pyramid demonstrates in a generalized way the food proportions that the population must follow in order to have a balanced diet, in this sense, to emphasize the importance of differentiated methodologies for the teaching of nutritional education for children with DS are necessary when we analyzed the genetic pre-dispositions of these children in developing chronic noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes mellitus, systemic arterial hypertension, obesity, cholesterolemias, which can be treated or prevented by changing eating habits. Early stimulation is an ally in meaningful learning about nutrition education, since the earlier the healthy foods are presented to children with DS, the more stimulated they will be in practicing change in eating behavior, improving their health. The process of socialization and teaching learning of children with disabilities in the school environment requires a differentiated teaching that fosters psychomotor development, enhancing interpersonal relationships. Based on this significant evolution of the child with SD, the interactive materials for the teaching of nutritional education aimed at children with DS, promotes the joining of meaningful learning through meaningful learning focused on nutritional education, consequently changing eating habits, improving health and preventing DCNT. The present work had as objective to elaborate a methodology of interactive materials for the teaching of the nutritional education directed to the children with SD.