Strengthening the self-concept in children with intellectual disabilities and health needs

Abstract

The present article of academic reflection arises in the light of the experience of social practice and is oriented towards the strengthening of self-understanding and self-esteem in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities and health needs, as one of the problems with significant occurrence to develop teaching and learning processes. In this research, a reflection was made on the evolution of the concept of intellectual disability in educational settings and health needs due to cancer. Finally, a series of strategies are suggested to successfully deal with the accompaniment of children and adolescents to deal with difficulties in health and intellectual disability. Concluding that disability is a matter of human rights and, therefore, all factors that threaten promotion, development, education, and self-concept must be eliminated in order to improve their personal and / or social difficulties.