Caracterização de serviços de Intervenção e Estimulação Precoce ofertados pelas APAES do estado de São Paulo

Early Intervention (EI) or Early Stimulation (ES) can be understood as a set of services and supports, which are disseminated to promote the full development of children with identified risk when generating or delayed development, perceived during the first years, Limit improving your quality of life and that of your family members. Regarding the importance of this service, the present study aimed to characterize the EI/ES services offered by the Association of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional (APAES) in the state of Sao Paulo. A protocol with structured questions was elaborated, especially for this study, containing general data that would allow to characterize the service offered to the community. The results pointed out that ES is the most used terminology to name services, while in the literature the most frequent is EI, which was used in this study. The participating professionals responsible for the service have been working with EI/ES for many years, but none reported postgraduate studies in this field. As for the service offered, predominantly the care of children over the age of four, with the number of children, showing that children arrive very late at the service. In general, the programs include the participation of children on a weekly basis and their families are served sporadically. There is a multidisciplinary team with interdisciplinary care. Although the number of institutions surveyed was relatively small, it is expected that the results obtained with this study will encourage other researchers to continue research in this area, which is so relevant to the integral development of the child and quality of life for the family.