Irina Bondarchyk

The article presents the results of non-speech and speech breathing examination of older preschool children with mental retardation. It is established that children cannot distribute exhaled air economically and evenly. When air is used, children break words, interrupt phrases inappropriately. Preschool children do not have a normal type of physiological respiration. The article gives methodological recommendations for the development of children's breathing in the process of speech therapy classes.