Body expression as an inclusive strategy in physical education classes for hearing impaired students in sixth grade

Abstract

Introduction. Body expression is one of the curricular contents for the inclusion of students with hearing disabilities (HD) in physical education classes and consequently affects the development of social, communicative and motor skills, among which are the coordination capacities. Objective. To demonstrate the effectiveness of a didactic strategy based on expressive communicative activities to promote the inclusion of students with hearing disabilities during physical education at the Primary Education School in the province of Oro, Canton El Guabo. Materials and methods. The study design was explanatory with a quantitative cross-sectional approach with a pre-experimental design, in which nine students (n = 9) with different degrees of (HD) were sampled, who were diagnosed with the 3JS Test to know their level of motor coordination and scientific observation in physical education classes and documentary review to verify the state of development of the process. Results. An inclusive strategy based on expressive communicative activities is provided in the different curricular blocks with a design and implementation phase and another phase of evaluation of the same. Conclusions. The effectiveness of the application to practice was confirmed using the parametric Student T test, which yielded a high level of significance (sig. 0.00 < 0.05), thus verifying substantial differences between the levels of motor coordination of students with (LD) before and after the proposal was applied.