Valoración de la madurez neuropsicológica en preescolares de inicial I-II de la Unidad Educativa Zoila Aurora Palacios. Cuenca 2019.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The dynamic interaction process of boys and girls with the environment that surrounds them is of vital importance for the acquisition of cognitive and behavioral functions that will intervene in the neurodevelopment and maturation of the nervous system, since this is a period of great importance in brain development, since it is where the main basic neural connections for learning and behavior are established, so knowing neuropsychological maturity in the preschool stage is essential to prevent, detect and treat learning problems. OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Assess the neuropsychological maturity of preschoolers of initial I-II, in the Zoila Aurora Palacios Educational Unit. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Study is quantitative of descriptive observational type, taken as a population all preschool children who attend the Zoila Aurora Palacios Education Unit morning an evening sections (N = 80). The collection procedure was of primary source through the application of the CUMANIN test and the data collection form. For the analysis and tabulation of the results, the program was used: IBM SPSS free Spanish version 22, Microsoft Excel 2016 and Microsoft Word 2016. RESULTS: Of the 80 children evaluated, 62,5% were found in the middle level in terms of their neuropsychological maturity, according to the female predominant sex with 51,3%, 42,5% of preschoolers in the range of 4 years to 4 years 11 months, according to the data of the representatives are 52,5% married, with secondary education 56,3% at a poor socioeconomic level and the type of nuclear family 51,3%.