THE RELATIONSHIP OF PHYICAL PLANNING WITH IMPROVING LEVEL OF ORAL COMPREHENSION IN CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME
Orthophonia is a branh of psychology and among the modern disciplines in social sciences, concerned with everything related to language disorders and cognitive problems in children and adults, Among the categories that the orthophonia field takes care of, we find the category of people with Down syndrome, and this category is known for its low abilities in all aspects of language, cognitive, social and communication, which affects it negatively, so it needs to be taken care of at all levels, especially with regard to learning the initial gains that are a base for the growth and development of various aspects of life, and perhaps among the most important basal gains, we find what is known as physical planning, which plays an important role in developing the cognitive and linguistic aspects of the child. So this research came with the aim of knowing the relationship between the aquisition of physical planning and the improvement of the level of oral understanding among children those with Down syndrome, by adopting the descriptive approach, and to achieve the study, paul schilder’s physical planning test was applied to know the child’s ability to name and identify each organ of the dody and its role, and the Elo test in order to measure the level of oral comprhension. on a sample of 10 children (6 males and 4 girls) with Down syndrome, their ages ranged from( 5-8years). After the statistical study and analysis of the results quantitatively and qualitatively, it was found that there is a positive but weak relatioship between the aquisition of physical planning and the level
Keywords: Physical Planning, Oral Comprehension, Down Syndrome.