Keyword: «children of early age»

The urgency of the problem under study is due to the actual state of assistance to early age children with speech disorders in the pedagogical environment of preschool educational institutions, the importance of the supporting process for children of 2–3 years of age with delayed speech development and insufficiently developed supporting technology. Thus, the purpose of our article is to analyze the theoretical aspects of providing psychological and educational assistance to early age children with impaired speech development, presentation of the program “I learn to speak correctly”. The methodological basis of the research was made by the personality-oriented, humanistic, activity-based and integrated approaches, as well as by the theory of mental development of the personality of a young child with special educational needs, and the compensatory theory of anomalous development of 2–3 years old children. Such methods as an analysis of pedagogical speech situations, speech games, conversation, questioning of parents, and others were used during the experimental study. Analysis of the survey data showed that most children had a low level of speech development. The children, who took part in the experiment, had problems with contextual speech, grammatical structure of speech, and sounds pronunciation. Parents’ questionnaire survey led to the conclusion that most of the parents expressed a desire to raise the level of pedagogical culture concerning the problem of children's speech development, and agreed to take part in the program. The results of the experiment made it possible to develop the content of psychological and pedagogical support program for 2–3 years old children with a delay in speech development in the conditions of pre-school educational organization. As a result of the program introduction, 2–3-years old children have developed visual-effective thinking, they understand the speech of an adult, point to the object called, produce the named actions with the object, use different types of sentences in answers to the questions about the picture: simple, simple extended – with the use of direct object or indirect objects with prepositions. The model of specialists’ interaction is introduced in the kindergarten, aimed at developing and correcting the speech of early age children; parents (legal representatives) of young children get the basis of pedagogical culture (adults learn the elementary technologies of development, correction and prevention of speech disorders in 2–3 years old children, etc.). The article may be interesting for educators, speech therapists, teachers, defectologists of preschool educational organizations and parents.