“Valoración del desarrollo psicomotriz de los niños/niñas de 4 a 5 años de la parroquia salasaca.”

Abstract

The development of the research project is oriented to the Assessment of Psychomotor Development in children between four and five ages of Salasaca. The main objective is to determine the level of Psychomotor Development. The psyco-socio-affective method, EDA-Nelson Ortiz and observation, was applied in order to collect data from children. Therefore, the research has descriptive and quantitative parts. The methods were applied to 82 boys and girls of the Elementary schools of Salasaca, then the areas, such as; gross and fine motor skills, social-personal, hearing and language, were evaluated. These areas have specific items according to the age of the children. Furthermore, the deficits were found in the social-personal, hearing and language, and fine motor skills areas, while the gross motor skill has a normal development. The research project gives results which shows that 86,6% of evaluated children are in the dangerous level, and the 13,4% are in the medium level. These results were tabulated by the parameters stablished in the Nelson Ortiz test.