Aspectos Cognitivos de Pessoas com Deficiência em Situação de Acolhimento Institucional

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to analyze the relations between the fluid intelligence indexes and the functional cognition indexes of people with deficiencies in the institutional shelter situation in the city of Belém do Pará. To achieve this objective, use the quantitative and qualitative methodology for data collection about their fluid intelligence and functional cognition, and the data that was analyzed from this information added to the characterization of the participants. Two cognitive assessment instruments were used, the psychological test SON-R 6-40 and the inventory of routine tasks RTI-E., which enabled the collection of information about the knowledge of the 13 study participants in the period from January to July 2018 There was a division into three groups, A, B and C, with an index score on the IQ scale, thus allowing a more controlled analysis of the relationships between the participants and their cognitive performance. The data highlight the purely quantitative aspects of the psychological assessment instruments, even considering the qualitative considerations of the professional applicator, which seem to be subject to the influence of contextual, personal aspects, as well as the characteristics of use. It is recommended that the production of cognitive assessment instruments, consider ecological aspects and take ownership of the concept of functional cognition, in addition to not using any basis for its technical application guidelines, and these concepts be used in rehabilitation practice and treatment of people with disabilities. This research still shows a limited number of participants reduced, or what makes it impossible to carry out robust statistical statistics regarding the results presented by the SON-R 6-40 and RTI-E tests. In addition to this aspect, highlighted in the various diagnoses, we show the same performances and little data uniformity. Suggest that future research may be carried out in longitudinal characters, focusing on the functional cognitive performance of people with disabilities in institutional care and on the production of assessment instruments for this population, which show the ecological character of such measures.