Propuesta metodológica para la enseñanza de la natación adaptada en personas con discapacidad intelectual

Abstract

Swimming is a complete physical activity, it also involves mental processes, a psychomotor action that allows the development of physical capacities and helps to maintain a good state of health. For people with intellectual disabilities, it is a valuable tool that stimulates their latent abilities, contributes to their educational or sporting process and allows enjoyment and recreation. The present effort contributes to the teaching of swimming, systematizing a method based on physical principles such as those used by Halliwick, pedagogical principles such as behaviorism and classical educational theories such as Jean Piaget. Psychomotor and psychological peculiarities of individuals in intellectual disability status were taken into account and didactic adaptations were proposed that would help a better control of positions and movements in order to achieve the main objective: to learn to swim. Fifteen people of both genders, aged between 10 and 25 years of the different special education centers of the city of Cuenca, participated in this work and belong to the Club of Sport Adapted for People with Intellectual Disabilities of the Province of Azuay Amphibious. The results together with the conclusions and recommendations of this excellent work were analyzed and exposed in the final chapter, thus determining the effectiveness of the present methodological process.