“La estimulación sensorial en el desarrollo motor grueso de niños de 18 a 24 meses”

Abstract

The present research Project was carried out in San Pedro de Pelileo Canton, Tungurahua Province, with a population of children in an age range of 18 to 24 months, 8 girls and 7 boys. Who come to the Office of Early Stimulation “Burbujitas of Colors”, in wich it is intented to determine the influence of Sensorial Stimulation in the gross motor development of the aforementioned population. In order to obtain the necessary information, the Battelle Development Inventory was used as an assessment tool, which allows evaluating two sub-areas of gross motor skills: Body Coordination and Locomotion, in this way to know at what level the children were ) in study and apply a series of Sensory Stimulation activities with a focus on gross motor development. Subsequently, a second evaluation was carried out, in which positive results were obtained. this is how we have that, in the subarea of body coordination, in the first evaluation, 80% refers to weak points, while 20% in normal development and 0% in strong points; later in the final evaluation, after a planned intervention, it was evident that 93% were in normal development and 7% in strong points. In the sub area of Locomotion, in the first evaluation, 87% were in weak points, 13% in normal development and 0% in strong points; The final evaluation, 87% was in the normal development and 13% in strong points; Proving in this way the hypothesis proposed which results that the Sensorial estimate influences the motor development of children from 18 to 24 months.