Famílias de crianças com síndrome de Down: escolarização, serviços de apoio, satisfação parental e suporte social
Resumo
The family is the child's first social environment and the basis for their child development.
Families of children with disabilities have specific characteristics and needs. Knowing these
families makes it possible to create programs to help them. This research was based on the
bioecological perspective of human development defended by Bronfenbrenner. The objectives
were: (a) to characterize the schooling of children with Down syndrome in the regular school
network (b) to identify and analyze support services, parental satisfaction and social support
of families of children with Down syndrome and (c) ) to relate parental satisfaction and social
support with the sociodemographic data of these families. Participants were 13 mothers and 2
fathers of children with Down syndrome enrolled in public schools. The evaluative measures
were: Critério Brasil, a questionnaire on social support and parental satisfaction and a
semi-structured interview script. The interviews were individualized, face-to-face and online.
Data were analyzed categorically and using measures of central tendency and dispersion. To
correlate the variables, the Spearman correlation test was used. There was a diversity of care
and needs of families. Parental satisfaction showed a high average and a positive correlation
with the age of the parents, influencing the well-being of the child. Satisfaction with social
support depended more on quality than quantity. It is concluded that there is a need for
intervention programs and public policies that pay attention to the individualities of families
of children with Down syndrome and offer quality support networks.
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