Prevalência de crianças com provável Transtorno do Desenvolvimento da Coordenação: um saber necessário para inclusão educacional no contexto amazônico

Abstract

The inclusive education, as a basic principle, ensures education for all, for that reason, all individuals - and especially those with special educational needs (SEN) - have their right to education guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution (BRAZIL, 1988). Within this scenario, there are children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). The DCD is characterized by a delay in the development of motor coordination that meanly interferes not only in theirs activities of daily life (ADL) but also in their activities of school life (ASL). The estimated prevalence in the child population is 6%, which makes it one of the most frequent developmental disorders. The prevalence studies are considered the first steps in the identification of these children, mainly in the Amazon context. Our goal was to estimate the prevalence of children in probable Coordination Developmental Disorder during the elementary school. The sample was composed of 200 children from 7 to 10 years of age, from both genders, enrolled regularly and attending the public schools from municipal education system in Manaus-AM. The tools used for data collection was the Movement Assessment Battery for Childrens (MABC 2). The analysis of data was descriptive, involving the average as a measure of central tendency, the standard deviation as the measure of dispersion. Withal we have used the frequency and percentage of cases. The results indicated a general prevalence of 30.5% (61) of children with pDCD, others 15.5% (31) presenting pDCDs and at last 15% (30) pDCDm. Therefore we conclude that the prevalence of pDCD in the Amazon context is much higher than that indicated by the international literature. The children as seven, eight and ten-years-old presented high prevalence and in regards to gender, boys had a higher prevalence in comparision to girls. Thereby, the identification of children with pDCD is essential, since this provides basic information aiming at the pedagogic orientations for teachers and parents, moreover for conducting and planning school activities, as well as elaborating and/or indicating some intervention programs that turn down the negative interference in relation to the developmental course. To participate in the inclusion process is to be predisposed to respect the diversity. Thus, it is relevant that the school provides an environment focused on the perspective of educational inclusion in order to achieve unity with diversity, that is, a school open to all. And hence we reaffirm the importance of considering the inclusion of the child with pDCD in the Amazon context.