THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DIFICIENCIES : THEIR BELIEFS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR CHILD'S DEFICIENCY: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS.

Abstract

The parents have an important participation in the development of the children. They are the ones who will search ways so that their child can grow up to become independent.. The deficiency is considered as a frustrating experience for the family. Its diagnosis generates in the begetters an emotional misalignment, mobilizing them in the direction of the need to adapt to a new situation. The attitudes that they have in relation the deficient child results in their beliefs. The beliefs, in turn, are based on the cognitive structures on which the attitudes are based. With the objective of unveiling the beliefs of parents of deficient children,  with regards to the deficiency of their child's, possibilities and limitations and the importance of their participation in the accomplishment of the education process of learning, we carried out through 50 interviews with parents of pupils registered in PROAMDE - Program of Motor Activities for Deficient of the Federal University of Amazon. For the accomplishment of the interviews a half-structuralized script was used, previously tested. The data obtained was analyzed qualitatively through the analysis of contents. Through the analysis we acquired ten pointers: knowledge of the deficiency; searching  of knowledge; impact on life; discovery of the deficiency; possibilities and limitations; dependence; learning possibilities; protection, and relationship of parents with their child, sentiments (Affectionate) feelings ;expectations and beliefs. We perceive that the parents had shown negative feelings in relation to their child and good part of them still possess the belief of the cure for the son. Such behaviors are related mainly to the lack of information since all the parents had shown a lack of knowledge about the deficiency of their child. For this reason it is necessary not only the accompaniment of the doctor, for the children, but much more information on the part of these professionals, for the parents as well as psychological support, aiming to help them in the emotional reorganization themselves in way that the deficiency of the child is not seen as something terrible, making the genitors look for the potentialities of the child, and not at their limitations, thus facilitating the process of learning of the child.