Keyword: «children with "early childhood autism" diagnosis»

The relevance of the study is due to statistical data that the number of children diagnosed with "early childhood autism" is constantly growing every year. Autism is a serious socio-psychological and pedagogical problem (most teachers do not have at their disposal special technologies for the education and training of children diagnosed with autism, universities do not prepare specialists for work with children of this category, practice-oriented courses of professional development conducted by experienced, qualified specialists are rare, etc.); we see the resolution of these contradictions in the systemic training of pre-school teachers for the organization of correctional-educational work with children having "early childhood autism". The purpose of the article: theoretical and methodological analysis of the problem scientific research and organizing work with "early childhood autism” diagnosed children. The article reveals the content of the program for teachers’ professional competence development "Peculiarities of educational work with "early childhood autism" diagnosed children”. The program is aimed at expanding the knowledge of pre-school educational organizations teachers about the psychological and pedagogical characteristics of children diagnosed with "early childhood autism," developing teachers' ability to plan and adjust educational tasks, taking into account the results of monitoring, individual features of children with autism, mastering the content and methodology of educational work organization and psychological and pedagogical supporting of children with "early childhood autism" diagnosis, the basics of designing correctional-developing environment aimed at correcting irregularities in the development of social and communicative spheres of an autistic child.