Dynamics of adaptation of preschool children with speech disorders in the process of psychological support
The article highlights one of the most pressing problems in working with children with disabilities. One of the most numerous groups of children with disabilities is a group of children with various speech disorders. Speech disorders and related deficits in the development of other personal spheres of preschool children become a source of problems in adapting to various situations of social interaction. This problem actualizes the issue of providing various kinds of assistance and support to children with speech development disorders, their parents, as well as teachers of preschool educational organizations. The article focuses on the need for targeted psychological support of preschool children with speech disorders in the process of their adaptation, presents a set of developmental deficits that slow down the process of personality development, complicate the process of social interaction, the inclusion of children in various social communities, determining the emergence of characteristic features of adaptation, manifested in behavior, interpersonal communication and interaction. The study of this problem is relevant, which is confirmed by numerous works of domestic and foreign authors. The author of the article, relying on a number of theoretical studies in the field of psychological assistance and support to persons with speech disorders, is testing his own experimental program aimed at preventing and overcoming deficits in the speech, cognitive, and personal development of preschool children with speech disorders. The article presents the empirical part of the study, provides a review of methods and results of diagnostics of the level of adaptation of preschool children with speech disorders before and after testing the psychological support program.