Boccia Program to Improve Communication in Children with Severe Motor Disabilities

Abstract

The following research deals with how an intervention in the physical education class affects to increase and improve the use of Alternative Augmentative Communication Systems (AACS), for children with communication difficulties, in a special school for children with motor disabilities. It arises from the difficulties that teachers have when teaching classes, with students who have severe difficulties in communication. For this reason, Bocce was chosen to achieve the stated objectives. This research was developed in three interconnected phases: diagnosis, intervention and evaluation. The diagnostic phase aimed to describe the current state of the students through observations and interviews with the teachers. In the intervention phase, an action plan was developed for six months. Finally, in the evaluation phase, the results of the initial and final phases were compared, through the application of the same instruments proposed in the diagnostic phase, which made it possible to assess the effectiveness of the intervention developed, and corroborate an improvement in communication. For all the above, this work aims to analyse the impact of an intervention proposal in the physical education class to increase and improve the use of AACS in children with communication difficulties.