A NATAÇÃO COMO RECURSO NO DESENVOLVIMENTO MOTOR EM ALUNOS COM SÍNDROME DE DOWN INSERIDOS NO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL

Abstract

The present work verifies the internal consistency of the Global Motricity and Balance test batteries, from the motor development scale, in students with Down Syndrome (DS) enrolled in elementary school. The research method is characterized as a qualitative and quantitative field study without intervention, with combined exploratory-descriptive content. It has an intuitive character and is of deductive hypothetical origin. To this end, 6 (six) students with Down's Syndrome participated in this research, 3 (three) of which were swimming students and 3 (three) non-practitioners, at the Fundação Varginhense for Assistance to the Exceptional (FUVAE), enrolled in elementary school, from municipality of Varginha Aiming to evaluate the effect of swimming as a resource on motor development, through movement categories that were locomotion and stability, in practicing and non-practing students, with Down Syndrome. For data collection, 10 (ten) tests were applied, being 6 (six) global motricity tests and 4 (four) balance tests, with 3 (three) attempts for 90 seconds. In general, according to the motor results achieved by children with Down syndrome, swimming as a resource proposal for motor development promotes an additional methodology for the effective practice of the proposed skills within the motor levels demonstrated in practicing students than non-practicing students.