Implementation Of An Early Stimulation Program In The Children's Center "Yacucalle"

Abstract

The early stimulation in infants during their first years of life is crucial to improve psychomotor skills and development. The present study proposes to apply the program of early stimulation by physiotherapeutic focusing in children from 0 to 3 years old at the Yacucalle Children's Center.” From the Ibarra canton, Imbabura province. The research had a qualitative-quantitative approach, with a descriptive and field scope, the design was quasi-experimental, longitudinal. The results were obtained using the Nelson Ortiz Abbreviated Scale and the UNICEF Early Stimulation Program, applied to 35 children, and evaluating the changes caused before and after the intervention through the use of the third level of the Kirkpatrick Scale. The obtained data indicate that the predominance of the masculine gender between 25 and 36 months; before the intervention, the evaluation of children prevailed in the middle level and some were located in the alert level; after the application of the program, the majority escalated to higher levels, being represented in the medium high level and a small minority maintained the level alert, depending mainly on the area of audition and language. Based on the transition of the results, it can be affirmed that the application of the program allowed to modify the output effectively with regard to the input of the children, reaching effectiveness indices that placed in the numerical range of the environment they are evaluated as optimal and upward respectively.