Are physical education-based interventions effective for improving physical activity level, and motor, cognitive, and socioemotional competences of preschool children with special educational needs?
- Autores: Haizea Zubeldia Artetxe, Markel Rico González
- Localización: Physical education in early childhood: movement and development from 3 to 6 years / coord. por Markel Rico González, 2025, ISBN 9781041016182
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
This chapter is aimed at analyzing those physical-education-based interventions, supported by the scientific literature, that have demonstrated effects on preschool children's different competences (motor, cognitive, and socioemotional), as well as physical activity level, when they present special educational needs. Scientific literature highlights that physical education (PE) has positive effects on the motor competence of children with Down syndrome, developmental delays, motor development disorders, and autism spectrum disorder, while future studies are needed which consider children with hearing impairment. PE fosters an improvement in the physical activity level of children with Down syndrome and developmental delays. Although PE has shown positive effects on children with special educational needs belonging to the preschool education stage in their cognitive and socioemotional competences, future studies are needed to corroborate these findings.
