COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MOTORS TESTS KTK, TGMD2 AND BPM - FOR APPLICATION IN CHILDREN WITH MENTAL DEFICIENCY

Abstract

This article is the result of a bibliographical revision that had as objective to accomplish a comparative analysis among the three tests psychomotor, KTK, BPM (Battery of Psychomotor) and TGMD2 (Test of Gross Motor Development - 2). KTK is a test of corporal coordination for children that it appeared due to the need of diagnosing the motive deficiencies in children with cerebral lesions and/or behaviors deviations, it is applied in children in the age group of 7 to 14 years. KTK is composed by four tasks: Task 01 - Bar of Balance; 02 Foot jump; 03 - Lateral jump; 04 - transference. The TGMD2 identify children in the age 0-3 up to 10-11 that are candidates the special education in the physical education. The TGMD2 are composed of 12 abilities: Locomotor: to run, to gallop, to jump, to jump in horizontal, to slide; Control of object: to beat in stopped ball, hit ball in stopped position, to kick, to catch, to play the ball in the air, to play the ball rolling. The Battery of Psychomotor (BPM) describes the child's profile psychomotor, in the age group of 4 to 12 years. It characterizes the potentialities and the child's difficulties to identify and to intervene in the difficulties of learning psychomotor. The concern of BPM is with the: 1.Tonicity; 2.Balance; 3.Laterality; 4. Corporal perception; 5.Structural space-temporary; 6. Global praxis; 7.Fine praxis. When identifying the purpose of each test, we verified that the most appropriate test is that accomplishes demonstrations in the execution and the most complete is that analyzes the individual in a global way, therefore the Tests KTK, TGMD2 and the Battery of Psychomotor, they act in a complementarity way, being like this, when connect the quantity and the quality, the professional will obtain more information to accomplish the intervention, the tests are just good to diagnose the aspects that will be worked through the psychomotor re-education in child with or without mental deficiency.