One of the great challenges of contemporary society is to address the issues surrounding
the care of children and adolescents in institutions and the possible consequences of that
period in their development. Current studies seek to look at the host institution as
developmental context from the perspective Bioecological Human Development, in
which not only focuses on the context, but the interactions that the developing person
keeps to him. This study aimed to verify the applicability of the software Desenvolve ®
on cognitive assessment of children aged five to seven years on condition of
institutional care, discussing the possibility of environmental arrangements and
materials that will promote a healthy development. The participants were 16 children,
aged from five to seven years, welcomed a Belém’s public host institution. To gather
sociodemographic data sheet used the Ficha de Caracterização da Criança, that is a form
consists of 94 items divided into five categories: identification of the child, family
structure, history of institutionalization, sociojurídica current situation and child
health, which were extracted the variables age, sex, education, reason for the host,
length of stay in residential care, and educational evaluation. The cognitive assessment
was performed by software Desenvolve ® that trough 127 screen measures the
performance on 19 cognitive skills, which were analyzed in two categories: percentage
of hits and misses¸ and percentage yield in each cognitive skill. The results reveal that
the universe of participants is composed mostly of boys (75%), aged five years, family
neglect the main reason for the reception. It is noteworthy also that 50% of participants
go through their first experience of institutional care, while others face their second and
third experiments on schooling has been that all children have started their school
activities and / or develop in host institution’s Room Service Educational, however,
there is a grace period for the medical records of educational evaluation. In cognitive
assessment, for the category of percentage of hits and misses, has hit percentage greater
than the errors for all children aged seven years, since the category of percentage of
income in each cognitive skill stand out as cognitive skills of low income: perception of
letters and numbers, perception timeline, naming numbers, sense of time, sense and
perception of numerical sequence sequence. From these results, we propose a plan of
environmental strategies and materials to promote healthy development, consisting of
12 strategies that encompass both activities aimed at (re) organization of the physical
environment and the teachers of the institution, and to direct stimulation cognitive skills
of lower income. Through the indicators of this study can observe the applicability
software Desenvolve® for the assessment of children in situations of institutional care
and the importance of this kind of mapping for the development and implementation of
strategies that will promote and ratify the host institution as context promoter of healthy
development.
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