La comunicación en los niños con síndrome de Down

Abstract

Communication is present throughout the life of the human being and begins to develop from birth, at this stage the parents will be responsible for transmitting the communicational legacy to their children, who will be the new members of a social group. Until they are able to use their own language to communicate with other members of society. Under this perspective, a qualitative study is carried out with six children with Down syndrome (NSD) whose ages range from 8 to 13 years in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, to identify the communicative process that these patients have had in the acquisition of the language and how they have improved this process. For six months, phonetic exercises were used through the ZOOM platform to motivate NSDs to improve their communication process with the people around them. It was concluded that, while the NSD were in the sessions, they managed to improve their communication process through the different phonetic exercises that were done. Thus, the main objective of this research is the reinforcement of language through phonemes P, B, T, D, K, G, CH, M, N, L, LL, R, Z, X, F, S y Ñ accompanied by repetitive exercises, acting, imitation of speech, sign language in order to allow the patient to improve their communicative relationship with the environment. After this first phase, it is hoped to continue with the study of phonemes using communication as a tool and to continue strengthening its pronunciation.