Valeriya Tkachenko

The lack of high-quality communication and poor interaction skills in preschool children are negative trends in the development of a psychologically healthy personality, which determines the relevance of the study. The aim of the work is to develop dialogic speech in preschool children with general speech underdevelopment by means of visual modeling. The article presents the results of the conducted experimental work, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the obtained diagnostic data, as well as developed tasks and demonstration material for them using the method of visual modeling.

The problem of «image of the world», set in psychology by A.N. Leontiev and other scientists, is viewed in the article. The author analyzes the approaches of different authors and on their basis singles out the struc-tural components and a means of encouraging the efficient formation of the image of the world among pre-school children. Drawing is regarded as basic and important mean of expression and formation of pre-school children image of the world. The article also presents the results of the experimental work, identifying the current level of development of preschool children image of the world.