Conjunto de atividades para atendimento de estimulação precoce na APAE de Ipumirim-SC

Abstract

Institutions such as the Association of Parents and Friends of Disabled People (APAE) seek to promote and guarantee the rights of people with intellectual or multiple disabilities through services in education, health, and social assistance. Most of these organizations are philanthropic and depend on financial resources from public agencies and private donations. This dependency results, in most cases, in infrastructure and equipment that is insufficient to fully meet the needs of the people being assisted. APAE Ipumirim-SC assists 23 people and offers, among other services, early stimulation care, which aims to develop skills to enhance the quality of life of children with some level of intellectual disability, since the first years of life are the best stages of neural plasticity. Therefore, this work sought to develop, in partnership with the institution’s pedagogical team, a modular set of activities to assist in early stimulation care. The methodology used was from Bruno Munari (1998), with an adaptation of the third stage of the methodology used by Gonçalves (2015) for validation. The final product was made from five wooden boards, which allow carrying out the activities of “alphabet”, “numbers”, “labyrinth”, “body positions” and “bead maze”. The collaboration of the pedagogical team was important for the results obtained, given the relevance of the professionals’ knowledge for the definition of criteria and validation of the developed product.