A step towards inclusion Un paso hacia la inclusión Exploring social skills through dance in people with disabilities from the Lions Dance group of Inder Medellín.

Abstract

At present, various ways have been sought to break the paradigms of disability at all levels, it is for this reason that new inclusive forms are planned at the educational level, so that people who suffer from physical, cognitive or mental limitations can participate in a training exercise that develops their social skills. In this sense, the LIONS Dance group of the sport without limits program of Inder Medellín, currently carries out dance training processes with people with disabilities, emerging from there the need to address the possibilities of these strategies to promote socialization in the users and establishing as the general objective of this research to identify the pedagogical strategies that promote the social skills of people with disabilities from the Lions Dance group of the Deporte sin límites program of Inder Medellín 2023. In this way, the methodology was used qualitative with descriptive scope and the application of instruments such as the interview and two patchwork quilts named as Care quilt and Experience patchwork, through which it was possible to identify that there is a relationship between dance pedagogical strategies and the promotion of skills users, in areas such as verbal and non-verbal communication, empathy, improvement in listening skills, among other essential skills that allow users to maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships.