Down syndrome and socio - emotional skills (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Individuals develop socio -emotional skills that enable more assertive contact with themselves, with the other and with the world. The development of these skills depends on biological, psychic and social aspects, as they influence the way people receive, understand and respond to emotions and relationships. People with Down syndrome have some biopsychosocial limitations resulting from their genetic alteration, and this work sought to analyze cognitive interference in the emotional and social expression of this clipping of the population. Aspects such as the importance of socio -emotional skills for socialization, the cognitive and developmental profile of people with the syndrome were addressed. The integrative review was used as a method for the elaboration of the research. 19 articles were found that indirectly relate to the theme, and 6 of them were selected for the analysis, as they presented research on the performance of people with Down syndrome in society, the mold of the relationships that are established by them, especially the answers possible to contingencies, in view of the consequences of the genetic characteristic. No material was found to relate to Down syndrome with socio -emotional skills. As a result, there was no restricted interference with cognition in the development of socio -emotional skills with people Downs, but a set of factors that imply their development concomitantly.