Aquatic activities for severe cerebral palsy people and relation with the teach-learning process.

Introduction: The Cerebral Palsy (PC) cases, have increased in the last decades in all the world. In Brazil if esteem that exists about 30,000 the 40,000 new cases to each year. The PC affects the central nervous system, being that the disability allied predominantly to the sensoriomotor part, with riots of muscular tonus, position and involuntary movement. Objective: To evaluate the area of the social function in cerebral palsy carriers submit to one program of aquatic physical activities, adopting itself Pediatric Evaluation Disability Inventory - PEDI, and manual abilities. Materials and Methods: Carrying 21 children with Cerebral Palsy had been followed, in spastic and athetoid predominant manifestations, with age varying of six years and three months the twelve years and seven months. The evaluation of the social function, in that if it relates to the assistance of the adult and its improvement before and after the practical one of aquatic physical exercises was used for the evaluation the "Pediatric Evaluation Disability Inventory - PEDI", in the part of social function was used and manual abilities scale. Results: It had significant improvements in the social part of the social function in the pupils who had been submitted the aquatic physical activities. Conclusion: The results found in the study, infer trends in the direction of that the practical one of aquatic physical exercises demonstrates indications of contribution in the motor improvement, with consequent improvement in the social function, bringing a bigger independence for the carrying child of Cerebral Palsys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]