Lukachovych H., Milevska O. - The results of studying the natural and ecological competence of senior preschoolers with general underdevelopment of speech

Contact: Halyna LUKACHOVYCH, graduate student of the 3 year of specialty 016 special education in Kamyanets-Podilsky National Ivan Ohienko University, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ukraine. Academic interests: the problem of the formation of lexical-semantic skills in preschoolers with general underdevelopment of speech, correction of the use of prepositions by children of preschool age with general underdevelopment of speech, the issue of the development of natural and ecological competence in children with speech disorders.

Olena MILEVSKA, Candidat of Pedagogical Science, Аssociate professor of the Department of Speech Therapy and Special Techniques of Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiіenko National University, Ukraine. Scientific interests: didactic and methodological aspects of the formation of lexical skills in children with speech disorders.

The article presents the results of an empirical study of natural and environmental competence in senior preschool children with general underdevelopment of speech. The experimental methodology adapted by the authors, based on the qualimetric approach to assessing the development of preschool children in the field of natural and environmental knowledge, the Environmental Knowledge Interview (Muraoka), the CATES-PV scale for assessing preschool children's attitudes towards the environment (Musser, Diamond), was used. The criteria for determining the levels of formation of natural and environmental knowledge, ideas and attitudes towards the environment in preschool children with generalized underdevelopment of speech are revealed; a comparative analysis of the natural and environmental development of older preschoolers with generalized underdevelopment of speech and with typical development is carried out. It is established that children with generalized speech impairment have disorders in mastering natural and environmental concepts, which is manifested in both lexical and nominative difficulties and semantic and conceptual ones; impaired understanding of the relationship between the economical use and conservation of natural resources, unformed value attitude to nature.

Key words: preschoolers, general underdevelopment of speech, natural and ecological competence, diagnosis, scale, interview, vocabulary,
ecological concepts, ecological ideas.