Jogos e intervenções grupais no atendimento de crianças com dificuldades escolares.

This paper discusses the relevance of using games to attend children with school difficulties. It studies its potential as an instrument of observation and intervention based on two fronts of analysis. On one hand, it examines the contributions of board games from the French neopiagetian research's view about the impact of new technologies on child development. On the other hand, it articulates these discussions with data from a University Extension Program for children aged 7 to 11 years. The method involved the systematization of 172 protocols corresponding to 35 participants. The results highlight the potentialities of games as an intervention tool, and note that interest and persistence alone do not guarantee satisfactory procedures in the resolution of cognitive and socio- -affective challenges, contrary to adult's arguments that insist on lack of effort and attention as causes for school difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]