Evaluación de las habilidades psicolingüisticas de los niños y niñas de 4 a 5 años de edad de la Parroquia San Joaquín – centro parroquial, Cuenca 2020

Abstract

Child neurodevelopment is a complex process that begins from conception and evolves systematically, it will develop and maximize during the first years of life, if adequate stimulation is provided. However; not all children have the resources and opportunities to enhance their abilities, for this reason, we saw the need to evaluate the preschoolers of the San Joaquín parish – Centro Parroquial using the instrument of evaluation Test Illinois of Psycholinguistic Aptitudes (ITPA). General objetive Evaluate the psycholinguistic abilities of boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 5 from the San Joaquín - Centro Parroquial. Methodology A quantitative study of a prospective descriptive and observational type, which was carried out on boys and girls between 4 and 5 years of age who belong to the San Joaquín - Centro Parroquial, using the ITPA test, Cuenca 2020. For analysis and tabulation of results, it was used the program: IBM SPSS version 23 Spanish free, Microsoft Excel 2019 and Microsoft Word 2019. Results The study was carried out with a sample of 90 participants, of which 52.2% are female and 47.8% male; of the total of the children evaluated, 48.9% show an adequate psycholinguistic level for their chronological age, 31.1% present a higher psycholinguistic level for their chronological age and only 20.0% present a psycholinguistic level lower than their chronological age.