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Evolution of the neurological development in seven-year-old blind children (Abstract)* * Avaliação do desenvolvimento neurológico de crianças cegas (Resumo). Tese de Mestrado, Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo (Área: Ciências da Reabilitação Neuromotora). Orientador: Sandro Luiz de Andrade Matas. ** Address: Disciplina de Neurologia, UNIFESP - EPM, Rua Botucatu 740 - 04023-900 São Paulo SP, Brasil. E-mail: andreasn@uol.com.br . Dissertation. São Paulo, 2003.
Andréa Sanchez Navarro** * Avaliação do desenvolvimento neurológico de crianças cegas (Resumo). Tese de Mestrado, Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo (Área: Ciências da Reabilitação Neuromotora). Orientador: Sandro Luiz de Andrade Matas. ** Address: Disciplina de Neurologia, UNIFESP - EPM, Rua Botucatu 740 - 04023-900 São Paulo SP, Brasil. E-mail: andreasn@uol.com.br
Visual handicap children have many difficulties in discovering and knowledge about their own body, all the objects around and the indispensable concept of space necessary to realise correct locomotor movements and to get independent mobility.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to evalute and compare the neuropsychomotor development of seven-year-old children who have normal vision and blind children, through the evolutionary neurological examination.
METHOD: The evolutionary neurological examination (ENE), standardized by Lefèvre et al. in 1976, comprises a battery of tests aiming at the semiology of the seven-year-old child neurological functions.
RESULTS: We observed, according to the Lefèvre neuropsychomotor development evaluation scale, difference between the two groups it were found in the tests which evaluate the static balance (p < 0.02) and appendicular coordination (p < 0.001). The children were submitted to an instability, due to the absence of two of their mechanisms to keep balance: the visual information and proprioception, remaining only the vestibular system, statistically corroborating that the vision interferes in the blind child balance.
CONCLUSION: The blind children have a neuropsychomotor development deficit in comparison to the ones with normal vision (p < 0.001).
Key words: visual deficiency, blindness, neurological development, evolutive neurological examination.
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