Impact of early stimulation on the physical and intellectual development of children aged 3 to 6 years attending CDIs and private schools in the municipality of Santa Ana

Abstract

The research investigated the incidence of early stimu li in the physical and intellectual development of the preschoolers that attend the Centers of Integral Deve lopment (CDI) as well as the ones that attend private schools in Santa Ana. Among the studied variables are: the lineaments and didactic strategies used in the CDI versus the private schools, the early stimuli techniques used in the initial and preschool institutions, as well as the consequen ces of the lack of early stimuli. Other variables that were considered in this study were the academic conditions of the teachers and the infrastructure of the schools. The teachers of the different public and private schools that are focused to the initial and preschool education in Santa Ana exposed the source of infor mation for this research. Also, it was used the obser vation technique.