El aprendizaje de conceptos de comparación, seriación y clasificación en personas con retraso mental

Abstract

The concepts of seriation, classification and comparison are not only results of child development but also because of formal training consequence. Standard development possibly has many structured and non structured training opportunities. But in mentally disabled children, it is necessary to increase the structured learning because of their cognitive malfunctioning. In this paper we studied if children with mental disabilities could be trained in the concepts of seriation, classification and comparison using specific software. 15 children with mental disabilities participated. They did not know the concepts of seriation, classification and comparison. They received several Computer Assisted Teaching sessions during their regular school hours. The hypothesis was that exhaustive training in these concepts would reduce errors in the seriation, classification and comparison computer tasks. Results suggest an improvement in learning these concepts for all participants. Learning curves as a function of the training are presented.