“La cadena conductual como método para el desarrollo de habilidades autónomas en niños de 3 a 4 años de edad.”

Abstract

The present investigation was developed in the city of Ambato, in the Province of Tungurahua with a population of 20 boys and girls between 3 and 4 years old belonging to Melita's Initial Education Center, whose general objective is to determine the result. of the application of the Behavioral Chain as a method for the development of autonomous skills in the population to be evaluated. As an assessment tool, an observation sheet was applied to infants, which was a baseline of autonomous skills, an instrument that assessed 6 autonomous personal care skills: going to the bathroom, getting dressed, undressing, washing hands, brushing teeth, wash your face. Given as a result the skills where the children had difficulty to fulfill them, once the baseline was obtained, the different methods of the behavioral chain were applied: complete presentation of tasks, backward chaining and forward chaining. It is concluded that the Behavioral Chain as a method for the development of autonomous skills worked in a meaningful way, resulting in an optimal percentage of autonomy in the children that the driver's driving was like this: in the activity of bathing with 37.5% with help and 62.5 alone, undressed: with help 33.3% and 66.7% alone, dressing: with help 42.9% and 57.1% alone, of the experimental population.