Intervention in improving care in students with intellectual disabilities

En este estudio analizamos la efectividad de un plan de mejora atencional a cabo en un grupo de cinco jóvenes con discapacidad intelectual. La intervención constó de una unidad didáctica adaptada de matemáticas, denominada “el apasionante mundo de los números y sus operaciones”, que tuvo una duración de tres semanas y constó de actividades de tipo visual y manipulativo. Evaluamos la efectividad del programa mediante el Matching Familiar Figures Test 20 (MFFT-20), la Toulose-Piéron y el test de caras de Thurstone. Los resultados evidenciaron mejoras en: el control de la impulsividad, en el aumento de la reflexividad, en la concentración y la rapidez y por último, en la corrección y en la percepción de los parecidos y las diferencias. Después de llevar a cabo esta intervención, discutimos los resultados y analizamos las limitaciones de la intervención, especialmente centradas a la carencia de tiempo para desarrollar más actividades.This comparative and descriptive study analyzes the effectiveness of an improvement plan that age carried out in a group of five young people with intellectual disability. The operation part of an educational unit adapted from mathematics, called "the exciting world of numbers and their operations", which was for three weeks and were various activities, especially visual in nature and manipulation. With a varied and participatory methodology is intended to achieve a progression at all levels (intellectual attitude and behavior, and competent), with three tests: Matching Familiar Figures Test-20 (MFFT-20), the Toulose-Piéron and the test of faces of L.Thurstone demonstrated that it is possible to control impulsivity, improve the reflexivity, increase the overall rating of attention and perception (IGAP), modify the concentration positively and enhance the speed and accuracy in the perception of the similarities and differences; as long as you create a didactic unit adapted to the educational needs and the characteristics of each subject. The limitations of this study were the time, space and the individual characteristics of the young people. Then he had a just enough time to carry out the tests, the interruptions were frequent, and more, at all times, it was necessary to take into account the desire that the subject had to carry out what is being proposed.Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Psicología Social. Proyecto de Innovación Docente ReiDoCre