Accompanying children with motor disturbances by Anne-Céline Soul
2007 Winners : Accompanying children with motor disturbances
In her third year of a psychology PhD in the Humanities research centre at the University of Caen, Anne-Céline Soul is studying the construction of space in children suffering from Cerebral Palsy (CP), who, she explains, “stand out from children without a handicap due to the frequency and importance of the spatial difficulties they encounter” – such as finding their bearings or distinguishing their right from their left, amongst other things.
This is not an easy issue: “Notions of space are essential for basic learning at school, such as reading, writing or the first lessons in mathematics, for example, thanks to the spatial recognition of letters (“b”, “d”, “p”, “q”)”.
“In the end, this research’s goal”, concludes Anne-Céline Soul, “is to offer preventative accompaniment of pre-school children whose motor characteristics are liable to influence their spatial organisation”.
