Niveles de maduración visomotora en niños y niñas de 5 años de la Unidad Educativa Emilio Abad, Azogues 2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: During the first five years of life, the different forms of movement in boys and girls allows them to interact with their environment and learn from it, that is why the evaluation of visual-motor reality is fundamental for the early identification of alterations in motor graph development, which indirectly indicates the biopsychosocial and learning process by which the child is going through. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To determine the visomotor maturation levels in children of 5 years of the Educational Unit "Emilio Abad", Azogues 2018. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Descriptive observational study, carried out with 121 infants from the Emilio Abad School Azogues. After signing the consent to the parents, the Bender Visomotora Gestalt examination was applied, the tabulation and the analysis of the information was carried out in the statistical package SPSS version 22; the variables studied were: visual motor maturation, age, gender, parental instruction, type of family, previous education, emotional state, and residence. RESULTS: The average age of the children is 5 years 7 months, masculine gender with 58.7%, 60.3% went to initial 1 and 2, 76% of children reside in the urban sector, 46, 2% of parents have secondary education, 53.7% of families are nuclear. 86.2% of children have a level of visuomotor maturation "lower for their age", with an average delay of 10.8 months. Visomotor maturation "lower for age" was more frequent in children who attended initial 2, male gender and parents with primary education. The most frequent emotional state was the "confusing order" with 82.6%. Conclusions: The visuomotor maturation of the children of 5 years of the Educational Unit "Emilio Abad", lower child for his age