Estratégias no ensino de vestir-se e alimentar-se para uma criança com baixa visão
Abstract
This work had the general objective of identifying and describing the useful resources
for teaching dressing and feeding activities for a child with low vision, and the specific
objective was to identify and describe the types of resources that help in the necessary
skills for the execution of dressing activities (dress dolls, dress up, put shoes on dolls
and wear shoes) and feeding ("feeding dolls", set the table, butter, jelly or curd on
bread, open cans of juice / put straws in the juice can, open jars of butter, jelly or curd,
and peel and cut bananas). Study participants were a five-year-old girl with low vision,
her mother - who responded to interviews and participated in two meetings with the
child and the researcher. During tasks was analyzed the type of help offered - total help,
which included doing the activity by the child; partial physical and oral help, assisting
the child in the accomplishment of an activity with his participation; oral help,
instructions or explanations of the activity appropriate to the needs of the child; and
absence of help, when the adult did not interfere - and the type of performance of the
participant; independent, when he performed alone; and refused, when he refused to do
the activity. The type of aid most frequently provided was partial aid, and the least
frequent aid was total aid. At the end of the meetings the child achieved independent
performance in all activities. We emphasize the importance of future studies that
investigate other autonomous life activities, with attention to help and information about
efficient mediations of the adult to different learning styles of these activities by
children with visual impairment.