Haletska Y. - A study of the state of formation of coherent speech of junior pupils with intellectual disabilities

Contact: Haletska Yuliya, Ph.D., senior lecturer of speech therapy and special techniques department Kamianets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University, Kamianets-Podilsky, Ukraine. Academic interests: feature the organization of educational and correctional-developing work with children with intellectual disabilities.

The article analyzes the results of a study of coherent speech of primary school children with intellectual disabilities. Communication is a necessary condition for the full mental development of the child, his comfortable living in society. The importance of the problem of the development of coherent speech is explained by the close connection between the process of speech formation and cognitive activity, in particular, the cognitive function of speech. Speech underdevelopment has a negative impact on the overall mental development of the child, which complicates or even makes it impossible for him to communicate with others. Successful work on the development of coherent speech depends on the creation of certain conditions, such as: attention to children's speech, adequate speech environment, the use of coherent monologue, assessment of the child's speech, and so on. Our study of coherent speech of junior pupils with intellectual disabilities involved the following tasks: to compose a story based on a plot drawing; make a sentence from the words that were suggested. In the process of studying the state of normation of coherent speech of junior schoolchildren of special schools it was revealed: children with intellectual disabilities have much lower levels of storytelling than their peers with typical development; junior pupils of special schools also significantly impaired the ability to build a coherent sentence from the proposed words, while pupils with typical development, it is much higher; junior pupils with intellectual disabilities have a secondary underdevelopment of speech, and since speech plays an important role in the acquisition of knowledge by children, its impairment should be the subject of psychological and pedagogical correction.

Key words: children with intellectual disabilities, coherent speech, junior pupils.