Application of the preceded model procedures in a family nursing intervention to stimulate oral language in a preschool with delay of the language

Abstract

In primary health care, the nurse is in charge of child health control. In Chile, all monitoring activities in child health and child are framed within the policy of child protection called Chile Grows with You.1 In this way, the nurse is in charge of the systematic investigation of children with risk or delay in psychomotor development, applying the following standardized scales: Psychomotor Development Evaluation Scale (EEDP) for children from month to 24 months and The Psychomotor Development Test for children between 2 and 5 years old (TEPSI) in infant and preschool health controls. It is also responsible, to complement the results obtained with active strategies early stimulation in these.1 A child with a functional developmental delay is one who is not able to perform the functions that he or she has to set up for the age. According to the latest Survey of Quality of Life and Health in Chile 11% of children have delayed psychomotor development.2 In assessments of psychomotor development, language is the frequently compromised, however, the real magnitude of this problem is unknown at the national level.3 Therefore, it is important that the nursing professional manage strategies that allow him to respond to this important health problem. The development of the child in the first three years of life is characterized by important acquisitions and cerebral elasticity. At this stage there are major advances in motor, cognitive and social area as well as in the acquisition and mastery of language, which are essential for the overall development and learning in children.4 In this sense, the family and especially parents exert a powerful influence on the child ‘s progress, playing a key role in the teaching-learning.5 Father absence, permanent feature found in homes of low socioeconomic and cultural level limits the child’s acquisition of experience and, therefore, the development of socialization and adaptation.5