Habilidades cognitivas y aprendizaje escolar en un estudiante con autismo.

Abstract

In the 2nd grade of the "Escuela de Educación Básica 11 de Noviembre", located in the Canton Arenillas, in the Arenillas parish, the case of a 6-year-old student with Autism has been evidenced, where difficulty is observed in certain cognitive skills and school learning. The general objective is: to determine the relationship between cognitive skills and school learning in a student with autism. The approach used is qualitative, which allows for explaining, interpreting, and analyzing the subject of study. This research is descriptive, it seeks to reveal relevant characteristics of the object of study in relation to their cognitive skills and their school learning. It has a neuropsychological approach. The assessment instruments used in this case study are Child Neuropsychological Maturity Questionnaire (CUMANIN), Learning Difficulties Questionnaire (CEPA), and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2). Based on the results obtained, it was verified that the student with autism presents significant alterations in her cognitive skills, a deficit is evidenced in her psychomotor skills, language, perception, memory, and attention. Likewise, the child shows difficulties in his school learning, so he reflects having limitations in the reception of information, the expression of oral language, attention, concentration, memory, and mathematics, and making reading and writing errors. Therefore, it was confirmed that the child presents difficulties in the development of his cognitive skills, which significantly affect his school learning.