Features of the reasoning of the intellectual disabled student in the light of genetic epistemology reasoning intellectually disabled

Abstract This research aimed to understand the singularities of the reasoning of 28 students with intellectual disabilities through the contributions of Genetic Epistemology and empirical research. The theoretical basis is based on research on the construction of human learning applied to atypical development undertaken by Inhelder, Ramozzi-Chiarottino, Dolle and Bellano and Piaget. The empirical research, qualitative, using the Piagetian clinical method, assessed through 11 operational tests, cognitive development of students aged 10 to 14 years with moderate intellectual disability. In this group, 15 are in an initial preoperative period, 12 in the preoperative period and the concrete operative period. These results allow us to locate the majority of students in a pre-logical step for the absence of operative frame of mind. It is concluded that there is need to promote challenging methodologies to modify either intuitive schemes operative schemes, intellectual decentration and intra-individual and reflective abstraction.