Incidencia de retraso en el desarrollo psicomotor mediante la aplicación del Inventario de Desarrollo Battelle a niños de Centros de Atención Especial. Cuenca, 2016

Abstract

Background: Psychomotor development is a mainstay for learning, intellectual development and maturity of the nervous system. If a child receives an adequate early intervention, developmental delays are avoided and it contributes to the acquisition of important development milestones that will serve the child for an adequate and independent skill (1). General Objective: Establish the incidence of delayed psychomotor development by applying the Battelle Developmental Inventory to children from special care centers. Cuenca, 2016. Methodology: The present study is descriptive-prospective, which has as a universe all children from 0 to 5 years attending 5 different special care centers in Cuenca, for which the authorization of the directors was obtained and informed assent was presented to each of the representatives of the children, who were free to decide if their children would participate in this investigation. Battelle Development Inventory was applied as an instrument, that evaluates five areas of psychomotor development: personal/social, adaptive, motor, communication and cognitive. The software for data analysis and tabulation were: SPSS, Microsoft Excel 2013 and Microsoft Word 2013. Results: The results helped us to have a global approach of children’s psychomotor development. 70.5% of children evaluated had developmental delays, the most frequent type of disability was intellectual disability and the center with the greatest developmental delay was CEDIUC