The Specifics of Gender and Age Self-Identification of Younger Schoolchildren with Mental Retardation
The system of meaningful social relations, is emphasized. A comparative analysis of the data obtained in the framework of the study of this phenomenon in groups of normotypic younger schoolchildren and their peers with mental retardation is presented. The qualitative peculiarity in the formation of children with impaired intellectual development of ideas about the logic of gender and age development and their perception of their own situation according to gender and age is determined. The certainty and correctness of their identification of their own sex has been established, a number of violations in the process of establishing the age sequence and serious difficulties in identifying themselves relative to the age period, difficulties in correlating the current situation with the requirements and conditions of the social situation of development have been identified.