Natalya Voronko

The article presents the results of the study of descriptive stories of schoolchildren with severe speech disorders. It is reported that these children find it difficult to structure the description and reveal its contents. Schoolchildren find it difficult to characterize heroes based on author's text and reproductions of paintings. It is noted that the most difficult problem for them is to give a description of a landscape picture.

The article reports on the difficulties of children with speech pathology in mastering native language. The role of literature lessons in the development among these schoolkids ability to reproduce and independently build monologues is noted. Diagnostic materials are proposed, with the help of which Russian language teacher can evaluate the quality of descriptive stories by children of average school age with severe speech disorders. The main results of 6th grade pupils with speech pathology survey using three diagnostic tasks are presented. Specific mistakes made by children are analyzed.