Valoración de los niños de 4 a 5 años de los centros de desarrollo infantil municipales, mediante el Test Illinois de aptitudes psicolingüísticas, Cuenca Ecuador 2019

Abstract

Background: Psycholinguistic skills are a fundamental part of learning and communication, being necessary to evaluate these skills to know if they are according to the needs of the child. It is important to work on these skills, through appropriate stimuli to prevent possible future deficits.

Course objective: To determine the psycholinguistic age of children ages 4 to 5 years through the Illinois Psycholinguistic Aptitude Test (ITPA) at the Municipal Centers for Child Development in the city of Cuenca.

Methodology: Prospective and cross-sectional study. The evaluations were carried out to children between 4 and 5 years of the Municipal Centers of Child Development of the city of Cuenca. The Illinois Psycholinguistic Aptitude Test (ITPA) was used. The data were analyzed using the SPSS 23 software program represented by statistics of percentages, frequencies and standard deviation, the Chi square was used for the relationship of the variables.

Results: The population was made up of 125 participants, a psycholinguistic age prevailing that prevails in the range 4 years to 4 years 11 months 60%, the 43.2% of the population a psycholinguistic age equal to their chronological age. The predominant chronological age is 4 years 64.8%, the male gender 51.2%, residence in the urban area 82.4%, typical average socioeconomic stratum 40.8% and 94.4% term gestational age. Finding statistically significant variables in relation to the psycholinguistic age with: chronological age with a chi square of p = 0.00, socioeconomic stratum with a chi square of p = 0.022.