Avaliação da utilização de mídias digitais como mediadores pedagógicos no processo de alfabetização de pessoas com Síndrome de Down.

Abstract

It is known that students with Down Syndrome requires a differentiated stimulation for the effectiveness of their learning. When considering the educational process of people with Down Syndrome in the Brazilian context, there are few data on literacy levels achieved by them, especially when mediated by digital media. The aim of this study is to compare, through the application of standardized tests, the quantitative results in non-verbal intelligence processes, prior repertoire of reading skills and reading itself, of people with Down Syndrome included in a program that the literacy process is mediated by digital media. Were used as instruments the tests: IAR, PROLEC and R1 / R2, applied at the beginning and after six months of student participation in this program.To measure results, the normality standards of the tests were not emphasized, but the data of the group itself at the beginning and at the end of the process.This research is characterized by being a restricted population study, with the participation of thirty-five students with Down Syndrome, of both sexes and aged between nine and forty-seven years old. Statistical analysis was performed using parametric and non-parametric tests. The results showed that after six months the subjects showed an improvement in the acquisition of auditory discrimination and visual discrimination, which help in increasing the capacity of association by the perception of information from the external environment and the individual. Beyond that, showed an increase in the recognition of same and different structures, that extend the distinction of visual aids enabling more prior skills for reading and writing, and a greater understanding of the instructions issued by others. However, the results also showed that non-verbal intelligence did not change significantly statistically. At the end, it was seen that the intervention of the inclusion program for digitas media of people with Down Syndrome (IMDSD) did not generated the full literacy through the semestral plans, but contributed to the evolution of some fundamental prerequisites that allow the acquisition of reading and writing.