Strengthening of logical thinking in children with intellectual disabilities

This research proposes a study conducted with students who show intelectual disabilities, from a sociocultural perspective. The main objective was to favour the logical thought by using mediating activities to strengthen five operations of such process. The design of this investigation was quasi experimental, the logical thinking was measured before and afther the application of mediating activities, using a control group and an experimental group. The tools were the Wisc-IV (sub area of drawing concepts) and the Infantile Neuropsicological Evaluation ENI, the executive functions area only. To determine the generalization of data an alternative test was structured for scholar periods. By comparing the scores between the two groups afther the intervention, the existence of differences amongst the scores was detected, being relevant the ones found within the semantic graphic fluency element and the cognitive flexibility by number of categories. Even tough within other evaluated variables there were no significant differences, the data points towards an adequate repercussion of the mediated activities over the student's performance