Family orientation to supplement the geographical knowledge of the town in pupils with intellectual disabilities

Abstract

The orientation to the family in the Special Education and in particular in the pupils with intellectual disabilities should include its preparation for the accompaniment to their children in their interaction in diverse scenarios. The present work has as objective to socialize the reached results in the educational practice with the application of the shops of family orientation to supplement in pupils with intellectual disabilities the geographical knowledge of the town, the one which in turn favors its future social inclusion. Investigation methods were used among those that stand out the analytic one - synthetic, the documental analysis, the interviews, the pedagogic test, the modeling and the procedures of the descriptive statistic; those that allowed to verify the initial state of this preparation and the shops preparations. The search of information on the topic threw that this edge has been little tried in the schools of family education; besides lacks in the geographical knowledge of the town where they live on the part of the family and her children. In consideration to the reached results and the approached approaches related to the thematic, studios of family orientation were elaborated to supplement the geographical study of the town that they carry out to the pupils with intellectual disabilities of 7mo grade of the municipality Consolación del Sur. The reached results evidence transformation levels in the preparation of the family of these pupils to supplement the geographical knowledge of the town where they live, the one which in turn favors their future social inclusion.

Keywords

• conocimiento geográfico
• discapacidad intelectual
• educación especial
• orientación familiar.