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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Neuropsychiatric Disorders in a Outpatient Clinic of School Underachievement
João Otávio Lopes Assis1, Rafael Corio Gabas1, Ana Caroline Comin1, Winícius Gomes Valadão1, Camila Fonseca Balcewicz1, Pedro Henrique de Araújo2, Marcos Antonio da Silva Cristovam1
(1. Western Paraná State University School of Medicine, Cascavel, PR, Brazil; 2. University Center FAG, Cascavel, PR, Brazil)
Abstract: The formal education is essential to the cognitive, cultural and economic development of a population and its impairment represents a social problem that results, individually, in low self esteem and discrimination between peers. Therefore, the Academic League of Pediatrics’ Outpatient Clinic of School Underachievement is a project Western Paraná State University (UNIOESTE) School of Medicine’s undergraduates, which aim to evaluate and to promote assistance of schoolchildren referred from elementary school of Cascavel City that present school underachievement.
Key words: neuropsychiatric disorders, school health, School-age child, elementary school, evaluation
