OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN PSYCHOMOTOR DEFICITS THROUGH THE MONTESSORI METHOD IN CHILDREN FROM 3 TO 5 YEARS OLD.

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1594902408106

• Palavras-chave: Psychomotor deficits, montessori method, neurodevelopment, psychomotor, occupational therapy.

• Keywords: Psychomotor deficits, montessori method, neurodevelopment, psychomotor, occupational therapy.

• Abstract:

  This article aims to show how occupational therapy and the Montessori method can be related and work together in the psychomotor deficit in order to analyze the importance of the implementation of these methods and therapies that help the proper motor development. Psychomotor skills are responsible for being able to perform actions that involve movement, through systems that develop throughout life and result in being able to execute in an easy and coordinated manner various tasks and / or activities of daily life. There are several factors that can cause a deficiency in psychomotor development, among them, when it is congenital or lack of early stimulation, when there is a deficit in psychomotor development requires the help of a multidisciplinary team and methods that teach and stimulate areas that are responsible for performing specific actions for each environment without complications, of which is the occupational therapy that is responsible for enabling people to perform activities of daily living, said in this way, occupational therapy activates the ability to perform day by day easy or complicated actions, making use of systems that work in a coordinated manner, on the other hand, the Montessori method is responsible for initiating an independence in the child, performing tasks that go according to their age, stimulating the areas that are necessary in terms of their level of development.
   
  developmental development that it should have. These two teaching systems, when used simultaneously, can optimize psychomotor skills in children from 3 to 5 years old. Within this age range, infants are able to absorb, generate and memorize coordinated movements to promote their development in different environments.