Éveil visuel à l'image chez de jeunes enfants cérébrolésés : étude pilote d'un accompagnement pluridisciplinaire pour une intégration multimodale

To arouse the visual interest for image, the essential support for the prerequired school learnings, we proposed a work on shadows to five brain-damaged children presenting an important delay of psychomotor development and cerebral visual impairment. In a first part, the visual perceptions are stimulated by colors and elementary geometrical forms then by simple shadow figures thrown onto a screen. In a second part, the spatial and temporal structuralizations, the proprioception and the body image are worked by creating shadows with the body on the screen. We observed different types of visual and behavioral improvements: increase of the interest for image both by its creation and by its observation, increase of visual attention, more obvious social relationships. This therapeutic and educational experiment conducted over one year testifies of the importance of a multi-field coverage both by pooling the knowledge and by confronting objectives of the therapists and educator team for a holistic support of the young brain-damaged child in the understanding of image processing.