Saúde Bucal da criança com Síndrome de Down: Sentidos subjetivos gerados por seus cuidadores.

Abstract

This dissertation has as the objective of study, the caretaker (mother or father) of children with the Down´s Syndrome. The main objective of this work is to understand the subjective sense which this caretaker (father or mother) develops concerning the buccal health of their child with the Down´s Syndrome and general health. The child Down´s Syndrome is seen within their biological, odontological and psychological limits. To understand the human development of such a person with the Down´s Syndrome, the dissertation applies to Vygotsky s Human Development Theory. For this author, the human development of a handicap child follows the same principles of a normal child, the only thing about the indirect ways. On the other hand, the caretaker will be analyzed while the senses of buccal health are developed with their interaction with the handicap child, together with a professional team, their family and society in general. The author who will be employed to accomplish such analysis will be Gonzalez Rey, who, for twenty years, has been constructing the subjective theory within the parameters of the Vygotskian historic cultural school, and which has one of its main pillar the subjective sense. The qualitative methodology has been used for such study, while a whole set of epistemological rules defend the constructive interpretative knowledge character. The instrument which was used to collect the data was the conversational system, of which,the thematic dialog is accomplished as a complement. The main conclusion of the work is that the caretaker of a child with the Down Syndrome, living with their child s syndrome, transformed or is transforming, their subjective feelings as to the buccal health to the child s general health.