Podium (Jan 2018)

Labor of the teacher of Physical Education and the logopeda in the rehabilitation of school children with cerebral palsy

  • César Peraza Zamora,
  • Adela Margarita Rodríguez Santiesteban

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 31 – 40

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In the rehabilitation of school children with Cerebral Palsy Children must act a multidisciplinary team to obtain the best results. The article shows the experience that was carried out in the research carried out with three school children with Cerebral Palsy for Children linked to the project "Comprehensive logopedic care for schoolchildren with special educational needs", carried out in the career Logopedia of the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences in the Isle of Youth. To this end, theoretical methods were used, such as historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, and empirical-level, such as scientific observation, interviewing, and information gathering based on a documentary review whose data were obtained after a system was applied. of exercises implemented. As a result the joint actions carried out between the speech therapist and the Physical Education teacher are exposed, which allowed significant achievements in the coordination of the articulatory motor skills of these students, taking into account the coordination of the small muscular movements that occur in part of the body as hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips and tongue, coordinated with the eyes, including actions aimed at the development of basic motor skills and other activities involving larger muscles, which included tasks through exercises and games. The students studied showed great interest in their rehabilitation, improving their autovalidism, they also increased their work capacity and recovered lost functions, achieving more coordinated movements, maintaining balance and a more coordinated march.

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