Milevska O., Savitska Н. - Peculiarities of forming verbal vocabulary in preschoolers with general underdevelopment of speech through the development of verbal prediction skills

Contact: Olena MILEVSKA, Ph.D. in Pedagogy, Аssociate professor of the Department of Speech Therapy and Special Techniques of KamianetsPodilskyi Ivan Ohiіenko National University, Ukraine. Scientific interests: didactic and methodological aspects of the formation of lexical skills in children with speech disorders.

Halyna SAVITSKA, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture and Valeology of Khmelnytsky Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine. In the circle of interests: the problem of formation of children with special education needs of moral and ethical norms of behavior and speech competentсе.

The article highlights the methodological aspects of speech therapy work on the formation of verb vocabulary in preschoolers with generalized underdevelopment of speech. A structured methodology aimed at developing verb compatibility skills is substantiated, methodological techniques are defined, their content and methodological support are developed. Attention is focused on the importance of predicative relations for the development of syntactic structures and the role of verbal predication is taken into account. According to the authors, when forming verbal vocabulary in preschoolers with speech underdevelopment, it is necessary to activate the ability to use predicative units variably, to be guided by their lexical-semantic and contextual-semantic features. The use of associative relations between lexemes is proposed and their types are taken into account. It is taken into account that the acquisition of lexical semantics occurs through a number of mental operations: determination of semantic features of a speech and language situation, establishment of structural relations; coordination of a semantic element with linguistic means; comparison of features of objects of reality; generalization of different meanings of a word and establishment of a system of relations between words. The author's methodology of forming verb vocabulary is based on modern research in the fields of speech therapy, psycholinguistics, linguodidactics and includes actualization and accumulation of verbal vocabulary at the denotative, categorical, and contextual levels; formation of verbal variability of different types (with visual and auditory reinforcement, based on mnemonic processes; contextual and semantic variability; intuitive and practical variability); formation of verbal compatibility and verbal valence; stimulation of associative relations mediated by verbal vocabulary.

Keywords: preschoolers, generalized underdevelopment of speech, verbal vocabulary, predicative relations, lexical compatibility, vocabulary variability.