A contribuição do lúdico para o desenvolvimento cognitivo de pessoas com Síndrome de Down: perspectiva de profissionais atuantes

Abstract

The presented article was built from a field research to investigate the contribution of playful on the cognitive development on a person who has Down syndrome from the perspective of the professionals that act in the area. It had, as specific objectives, to identify the playful activities used by the professionals to the cognitive development of a person with Down, to describe the goal of these playful activities and also analyze the contribution of these activities to the development of Down. To build this article an interview was done, structured with professionals of several areas, of an institution the works with disabled people. Based on the literature and the data collected from the professionals we observed that the theory and practice corroborate each other, confirming the importance of the playful to the development of people that has Down Syndrome.