Habilidades cognitivas y rendimiento académico en un niño con autismo.

Abstract

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that denotes constant complications in social relationships, stereotyped behaviors, cognitive and adaptative deficits. Withing this context, different cases of autism have been evidenced, becoming one of the most serious and frequent disorders that affect cognitive skills and the learning process of children, the research study poses the following problem: What is the relationship between cognitive skills and academic performance in a child with autism? The general objective is to analyze the relationship between cognitive skills and academic performance in a child whit autism; consequently, the specific objectives are to describe the cognitive skills in a child with autism and to assess the academic performance of a child whit autism. Our case study focuses on a qualitative paradigm, which allowed us to analyze, describe and interpret the qualities presented by the student. For the present investigation we took as the object of study an 8-year-old boy with autism where the instruments applied were; observation guide, interview. Goodenough test and CUMANES questionnaire, which allowed us to know the characteristics of the object of study. As for results, it was verified that the child present affectations in cognitive abilities which is limiting the capacities of attention, concentration, perception, language and memory generating by such affectations a low academic performance, where I corroborate the importance and relation, that exists the cognitive abilities and the academic performance.