Abstract
The research analyzed the social experience of children followed at the Adjamé child guidance center in Côte d'Ivoire for psychomotor developmental delays. This is a major concern given the difficulties in acquiring motor, cognitive, affective, sensory and social skills. Using a deterministic approach, 25 mothers with children with psychomotor developmental disorders were surveyed using a questionnaire on the socio-demographic characteristics of the children and their mothers, the clinical history of the children and the degree of their disorders, their social experience with parents and staff, and the mothers' suggestions. Parents live together and have income-generating activities. In many cases, apart from their parents, the children are in contact with people in the household. They are neither autonomous nor rejected by their peers in social relationships. Instead, they feel rejected by adults who attribute to them a negative social image as snake children, witch children. This plunges the parents into despair and desolation. This is why they suggest raising awareness in order to make the causes of this state of delayed psychomotor development of the child known and to bring about change. In this context, a holistic approach at several levels of intervention: individual, institutional, community and social, is necessary to deal with this discriminating and stigmatizing pathology. It is more than likely that this would contribute to solving the shortage of psychomotricians by increasing the number of these specialists in public facilities in order to optimize the care of children with developmental problems. Keywords: Delayed psychomotor development, social experience, social integration, child morbidity DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-20-04 Publication date: October 31 st 2021
Highlights
The psychomotor development disorder in children is a major concern in view of the difficulties in acquiring motor, cognitive, affective, sensory and social skills
Is the family and community environment of children followed for psychomotor developmental disorders stimulating? Is it rich in social interactions? In other words, is their immediate environment favourable to motor, cognitive, affective and sensory skills? How are these children with special needs perceived in their living environments? Faced with these questions, we propose the hypothesis that the image of children with psychomotor developmental delays hinders their social experience in the community
Several activities are carried out. These activities include listening and interviewing, investigation or exploration and evaluation for diagnostic and etiological purposes, psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and socio-educational follow-up, speech therapy, psychomotor and psychoeducational rehabilitation, communication for behavioral change, parental guidance and theoretical and practical training in infant and juvenile psychopathology. In addition to these activities, the child guidance center plans to develop reeducational activities alongside the clinic, liaison psychiatry, taking into account perinatal psychopathology, setting up a day hospital and ensuring a role of facilitator, trainer and coordinator in the maternal and child protection services, school and pre-school structures, associations and youth clubs Following the presentation of the survey area, it is necessary to specify the nature of the research
Summary
The psychomotor development disorder in children is a major concern in view of the difficulties in acquiring motor, cognitive, affective, sensory and social skills. The literature gives us some explanatory logic In this sense, Lamy, Laqueille, & Thibaut (2015) found that children exposed to tobacco, cannabis, or cocaine during pregnancy would present more cognitive disorders such as attention, memory, and executive function disorders, behavioral disorders such as impulsivity, attention deficit hyperactivity, growth retardation, and psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety, depressive symptoms. For their part, Taiaa et al (2017) observed that untreated Apert syndrome in a child explained his psychomotor developmental delay by the visual and neurological functional danger as well as the aesthetic damage following an unattended pregnancy.
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