A estimulação essencial e o desenvolvimento de uma criança cega

Abstract

The essential stimulation in children aged 0 to 5 years with special educational needs is of paramount importance, since it favors the cognitive, affective, and child psychosocial. For this reason, the essential stimulation activities have been gaining more and more focus, particularly as regards the development of the blind child, but it is still notorious right scarcity regarding the socialization of papers that discuss this topic. In this scenario, this work presents an analysis of the essential stimulation developed with a blind child at the Institute for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind Christmas - IERC-RN, emphasizing the activities developed and how they assist in their development process. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze to what extent the essential stimulation allows the development of a blind child, based on the activities, physical environmental, technological, material and human in your surroundings. Therefore, the methodological approach, qualitative, was the case study, the light of the principles of Yin (2005) and Gil (2007). The research subjects were the pedagogue of the institution responsible for the essential stimulation activities and a blind child aged 2 years and 8 months old. Instruments and research procedures were observation, semi-structured interview and the logbook. The process and the survey data were analyzed from the perspective of Bardin (2011) based on the authors read during the study, including: Bruno (1993); Rodrigues (2002); Farias (2004). Through the developed content analysis, which allows to understand the essential stimulation is a process that favors the development of a blind child. The motivation, family support, and the activities are incentives that help in cognitive, perceptual and motor development. Thus, the sooner the blind child is diagnosed and serviced sooner make their accelerated development increasing the chances to interact with the environment in which it lives thus allowing a better relationship with others