DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS OLDER PRESCHOOLERS WITH MENTAL RETARDAITION THROUGH THEATRICAL GAMES
The game is a leading activity of preschool-age children, with the social role-playing game is a neoplasm is the senior preschool age. Normally, older preschoolers plays the role, feels in the social space, preparing for the transition to school, increasing the arbitrariness of all mental functions. Theatrical games have a wide therapeutic effect on all aspects of children with mental disabilities. The development of higher mental functions of the senior preschool children with mental retardation is characterized by a total lack of organization, lack of purposefulness and involuntary. The paper discusses the features of the use of theatrical games, which have a wide therapeutic effect on all aspects of children with mental disabilities. The results of research on the effectiveness of using theatrical games for the development of higher mental functions in preschool children with mental retardation, who argue convincingly positive impact series sessions using theatrical games on mental development.