title: [Social interactions of preschool children with Down syndrome during extracurricular activities].
abstract: The aim of this research was to identify the process of social interaction of children with Down Syndrome (DS) during extracurricular activities in the regular early childhood education in Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil. Six children aged 3-6 years participated in this study. There were two recordings of each child in situations of social interaction during extracurricular activities, and analyzed by 15 behaviors, divided into two categories of social skills: interpersonal and self-expression. The results demonstrate that, in the interpersonal skill category, the higher occurrence was the behavior "occurs interaction with other children". In the self-expression skills category, only the behaviors "smiles" and "imitates other children" have significant occurrence. The behaviors more frequently identified in this study permit to understand that the school environment is a facilitator for the interaction of child with DS with the typical developmental children, allowing him/her to develop the expected social skills.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Curso de Graduação em Terapia Ocupacional (Graduanda). Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Renata Valdívia
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Lucisano
authors.forename: Luzia Iara
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Pfeifer
authors.forename: Maria Paula Panuncio
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: Jair Lício Ferreira
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Patrícia Páfaro Gomes
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Anhão
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male