Percepção das famílias de crianças com Paralisia Cerebral: a fisioterapia e o processo de reabilitação contínua

Abstract

The health services developed within a school for children with special needs are extremely important to the support and development of activities with focus on the child with motor disabilities. The intervene action happens under peculiarities and different aspects, supplying the needs to the neuropsychomotor and pedagogical development of the child with motor disability and/or any other associated to it. This study debates the perception of the family of children with diagnosis of cerebral palsy facing the continued rehabilitation process, in which a child with special needs passes by for a his/her life. From an articulation between different theoretical approaches, obtained data with the analysis of the entity's promptuary and in a field research with the child's family or with the one who is responsible for the children. The field research took place in a school of special education for children with specific needs also known as ANPR - Rehabilitation Association from the Paranaense North, which deals with children with motor disabilities, making use of an a qualitative-quantitative methodological approach . During the reseach, 25 semi-structured interviews have been made with the families of children whose diagnosis was cerebral palsy. All contacted families were previously selected by the department of psychology, in order to guarantee that the selected family wasn't going through any sort of emotional breakdowns. The results points an evident trust from the families to the multidisciplinar group, emphasizing the physiotherapy, and the rehabilitation process proposed whithin ANPR and linked to the SUS, in detriment to the service and and public service from the external Health Units to school.