Ciencia y Deporte. Vol. 9. No. 2, May -August, 2024, p.e234
Original article
DOI:https://doi.org/10.34982/2223.1773.2024.V9.No2.00 5
Family guidance methodology for psychomotor stimulation of infants with low vision diagnosis
Metodología de orientación familiar para la estimulación psicomotriz del lactante con diagnóstico de baja visión
Metodologia de orientação familiar para estimulação psicomotora de bebês com diagnóstico de baixa visão
Armida Osoria Couto1*
, Melva Luisa Rivero Rivero2 , Martha Leonor Armenteros Pimentel1
1University of Camagüey "Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz", Faculty of Physical Culture. Camaguey, Cuba
2University of Camagüey "Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz", Department of Special Education. Camaguey, Cuba
*Corresponding author: armidaosoriacouto@gmail.com
Received: 04/12/2023
Accepted: 01/24/2024
ABSTRACT
Introduction: incorporating and socially improving the standard of living of infants
with low vision diagnosis (LVD) who present psychomotor development delay, is a challenge
for physical rehabilitation professionals, since this is a disabling disease from a motor point
of view.
Objective: to develop a methodology for family orientation in the psychomotor
stimulation of infants with low vision diagnosis.
Materials and methods: theoretical methods such as analysis and synthesis,
systemic structural functional methods were used for the construction of the theoretical
framework, which made it possible to determine the essential elements to include in the elaboration
of the methodology and determine its components. In the empirical order, the survey,
the interview, the documentary analysis, the case study and the percentage calculation made
it possible to evaluate the relevance of the methodology.
Result: the fundamental result of this study is the methodology for the orientation to
the family in the psychomotor stimulation of infants with low vision.
Conclusion: the implementation of the methodology allows the family to be prepared
to effectively influence the psychomotor skills of their children with low vision diagnosis.
Keywords: Family orientation, low vision, psychomotor skills, infant.
RESUMEN
Introducción: incorporar y mejorar socialmente el nivel de vida del lactante
con diagnóstico de baja visión (DBV) que presentan retardo del desarrollo psicomotor, es
un reto para los profesionales de la rehabilitación física por ser esta una
enfermedad discapacitante desde el punto de vista motor.
Objetivo: elaborar una metodología para la orientación a la familia en la
estimulación psicomotriz de los lactantes con diagnóstico de baja visión.
Materiales y métodos: se emplearon métodos teóricos como el análisis y la síntesis,
el sistémico estructural funcional para la construcción del marco teórico, lo que
posibilitó determinar los elementos esenciales a incluir en la elaboración de la metodología
y determinar los componentes de esta. En el orden empírico, la encuesta, la entrevista,
el análisis documental, el estudio de caso y el cálculo porcentual permitieron evaluar
la pertinencia de la metodología.
Resultado: el resultado fundamental de este estudio es la metodología para la
orientación a la familia en la estimulación psicomotriz de los lactantes con baja visión.
Conclusión: la implementación de la metodología permite preparar a la familia para
incidir con efectividad en la psicomotricidad de sus hijos con diagnóstico de baja visión.
Palabras clave: Orientación familiar, baja visión, psicomotricidad, lactante.
RESUMO
Introdução: incorporar e melhorar socialmente o padrão de vida de bebês com diagnóstico de baixa visão
(VBB) que apresentam atraso no desenvolvimento psicomotor é um desafio para os profissionais de reabilitação física
por se tratar de uma doença incapacitante do ponto de vista motor.
Objetivo: desenvolver metodologia para orientação familiar na estimulação psicomotora de bebês com
diagnóstico de baixa visão.
Materiais e métodos: para a construção do quadro teórico foram utilizados métodos teóricos como análise
e síntese, funcionais estruturais sistémicos, que permitiram determinar os elementos essenciais a incluir
no desenvolvimento da metodologia e determinar os seus componentes. Na ordem empírica, o levantamento,
a entrevista, a análise documental, o estudo de caso e o cálculo percentual permitiram avaliar a relevância
da metodologia.
Resultado: o resultado fundamental deste estudo é a metodologia de orientação familiar na
estimulação psicomotora de bebês com baixa visão.
Conclusão: a implementação da metodologia permite que a família esteja preparada para influenciar
efetivamente as habilidades psicomotoras de seus filhos com diagnóstico de baixa visão.
Palavras-chave: Orientação familiar, baixa visão, habilidades psicomotoras, bebê.
INTRODUCTION
Working to prepare the family to stimulate the development of their children is a responsible and flattering task at the same time. Several authors at different times have carried out research on the topic; among their main contributions are those related to language development and learning. Currently, special attention is paid to children, unlike before the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution, where only those children of the highest social class who could pay medical expenses received differentiated attention.
Since the 19th century in the Republic of Cuba, the role that the family should play in the education of its children has been considered. From a legal point of view, there are documents referring to the role of the family, among them the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba (2019), The Family Code (2022), The Children's and Youth Code (1978).
However, neither in these documents nor in the aforementioned research does it explain how families can contribute to the development of the psychomotor skills of their children with low vision diagnosis.
Both the foreign and national authors mentioned above leave the way open for conducting research related to family preparation; among these, Picayo; Picayo and Pérez (2019), Pérez; Muñoz; Gómez et al (2022),Ulloa; Hernandez; Páez et al (2022) stand out, who have tried to improve the educational influences that infants receive at home, however, there are still cracks in family orientation in relation to activities in the psychomotor order and that this favors a more comprehensive development of infants with low vision diagnosis (LVD).
Others authors such as Quispe, CE; Troya, EV (2020), Montaño, L. (2019), Sampayo, Valle and Guerrero (2022), and Santiesteban, B. (2023) approach family orientation from different educational levels and various areas of intervention, emphasizing the importance of preparing families to practice, as well as taking into account their needs and potentialities.
Several authors have also investigated about the family, among them Calderón; Conesa; Suarez and Figueroa (2019) who addressed the preparation of the family for the development of educational work, Pérez, Ruiz and Rivero (2021) who conducted research on how to prepare the family so that it helps to perform independent work and, Céspedes, Alonso and Smith (2022) investigated about educational guidance to the family to stimulate sensory-motor development in the first year of life, Ferrales and Sánchez (2023) the preparation of the family for the development of the child from the educates your child program.
Morrillo, A.M, Aguavil, J.G, García, B.A, Coello, B.M (2022), Guerra, E., González, Y.A, Pérez, D., Gamboa, D., Contreras, T. (2022), have addressed psychomotor rehabilitation in pediatric age, but not particularly in children with visual impairment.
Regarding psychomotor stimulation in the family context in early childhood, authors such as Osoria, (2019) and Dolores, Rojas, (2019) agree on the need to take into account the sensitive periods for psychomotor stimulation.
In terms of psychomotor stimulation in infants with a possible low vision diagnosis, authors such as Quispe, Troya, (2020), agree on the importance of carrying it out systematically, but do not establish guidelines for its practice by the family, and most of them do not consider the age of the infant.
Based on the authors' experience, as well as on interviews with parents of children with low vision diagnosis, it was found that:
Therefore, the objective of this research is to elaborate a methodology for the orientation of the family in the psychomotor stimulation of infants with low vision diagnosis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Among the methods and techniques used for the elaboration of the methodology, documentary analysis was found to determine the theoretical foundations of the family counseling process. The analysis and synthesis made it possible to specify the essential elements to include in the methodology. The systemic structural-functional approach made it possible to conceive the components, stages and actions of the methodology.
The survey allowed us to obtain information on the level of knowledge that parents have on aspects related to the characteristics of their infants in terms of psychomotor development and the preparation they have to enhance the stimulation process.
While the interview was applied to parents with the objective of knowing the potential and weaknesses of infants with LVD who do not attend special classrooms or rehabilitation areas in order to use the data collected to enrich the research.
A case study was developed based on the introduction of a methodology to contribute to the preparation of the family in the psychomotor stimulation of their infant child with low vision diagnosis. The percentage calculation allowed us to evaluate the relevance of the methodology.
A qualitative observational single-case, inclusive and exploratory study was carried out. The case study was developed following the logic of the stages conceived for the methodology; this was implemented in the family of an infant with low vision diagnosis with an optic nerve coloboma at 6 months of age and a psychomotor development evaluation corresponding to 2 months of age.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
A family orientation methodology is proposed to enhance the psychomotor development of their infant children with low vision diagnosis. This methodology is structured in stages; it presupposed a sequence of stages and each stage is in turn a sequence of actions, therefore, it explains how it operates in practice, how they are integrated, which methods, procedures and means are proposed, as well as the methodological recommendations to promote the preparation of the family to stimulate the psychomotor development of their infant child with a possible low vision diagnosis.
Objective of the methodology: to favor the orientation to the family to stimulate the psychomotor skills of the infant with a possible low vision diagnosis.
The first stage of the methodology is the diagnostic stage, which is proposed to be carried out in several directions:
The second stage is the planning stage in which the following actions are carried out:
Table 1 - Distribution of activities in the first trimesters of the first year of life
The third stage is the implementation. The main objective of this stage is to implement the family orientation methodology for the psychomotor stimulation of the infant with low vision diagnosis, in which the activities planned for this purpose are implemented.
Methodological recommendations for the implementation of the methodology. The methodology is accompanied by guidelines that allow its implementation in different contexts and conditions. Two workshops or activities of orientation and initial evaluation will be carried out for the orientation of the family for the realization of the psychomotor stimulation activities in the infant with possible low vision diagnosis and determination of the psychomotor age of the infant.
Fourth stage. Evaluation. It was carried out based on a group of actions that allow us to verify whether the methodology guarantees the achievement of the proposed objectives. The evaluation was directed to the process and therefore to consider the procedures used to carry out the tasks, as well as the possibility of generalizing them; therefore, they should address the orientation, the execution process and the control itself.
From the practice, the family in charge of the psychomotor stimulation process of the infant with low vision diagnosis, evidence that the main difficulties in accessing the stimulation sessions were eradicated by the positive impact, since the methodology offered the necessary tools to carry them out at home, the conceptual and procedural references offered by this proposal, especially the different types of stimulations offered in the manual, provides an improvement in the emergence of initiatives by both the infant and the family, by considering the characteristics that typify infants with low vision diagnosis and that the family should master.
As part of the final results, an interview was applied to the family with the objective of knowing the evaluative judgments provided by the methodology for the stimulation of psychomotor skills in infants with low vision diagnosis in the family context.
The results obtained demonstrate that the family considers that the proposed methodology meets the requirements for the stimulation of psychomotor skills in infants with low vision diagnosis in the family context and that it has the necessary foundations to be mastered for work in the stimulation sessions.
The family considers that there is a correspondence between the objectives set out in the methodology and what the psychomotor stimulation program pursues in this type of disability, since it offers guidelines for the stimulation of psychomotor indicators based on the determination of the zone of current and upcoming development, the cognitive characteristics presented as a result of the disability and also the implications of the activity, which in this particular case refers to the activities to be considered for the early stimulation process.
Furthermore, it states that the selection, adaptation and distribution of activities and actions respond to the needs of maturity of the typical psychomotor development courses of the infant in the first year of life, taking into account the possible diagnosis of low vision of these infants, and adaptations to physical activity for rehabilitative purposes to take into account the need to adjust the activities to the needs and potentialities of infants.
In relation to the methodological indications provided as part of the methodology, they were considered appropriate since they state the success of the sessions in order to fulfill the objectives of the methodology.
The family considers that the methodology with a didactic, integrated and organized nature is a fundamental tool for the stimulation of psychomotor skills in infants with low vision diagnosis through activities in the family context by intervening in the development of psychomotor capacities and skills.
Meanwhile, the inquiries made by the researchers through the survey made to the parents with the objective of obtaining information about the level of knowledge acquired in aspects related to the characteristics that their infant possesses regarding psychomotor development and the preparation they have to enhance the stimulation process through the guidance received showed the acquisition of knowledge about the typical courses of development of infants in the first year of life, fundamentally those referring to the biological age of the treated infant, they can conceptualize in their own words the meaning of early stimulation, as well as the importance of its application for the psychomotor development of the infant from the first days of birth. They are also identified with the benefits of early stimulation in the infants with low vision diagnosis, as well as identify the areas to be stimulated.
These activities encouraged reflection based on the practical experiences of the parents, the interest shown by the family in terms of attendance was recognized, intervention in the sessions based on their experiences, the attitude of the families revealed significant changes and satisfaction with the psychomotor development of their child. Improvement was noted in the infant's psychomotor development.
It was confirmed that the theoretical knowledge of the family was increased in relation to the psychomotor characteristics of infants, the peculiarities of the motor development of infants with low vision diagnosis, the requirements on how to work with them to enhance their motor skills.
CONCLUSIONS
Families of infants with low vision diagnosis are in need of guidance on how to successfully influence the psychomotor development of their child, to enhance their multi-sided development that will allow them to integrate into society as a useful individual.
The results obtained with the implementation of the methodology made it possible to confirm its effectiveness, in which a progressive increase in the level of theoretical and practical preparation of the family, on how to contribute to the stimulation of the psychomotor development of the infant with low vision diagnosis was observed.
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