Keyword: «children with special educational needs»

The paper deals with inclusion of children with special educational needs in main educational system. The author examines the etymology of the concepts "educational needs", "special educational needs", "children with special educational needs." Emphasis is placed on systematizing categorical apparatus of the concept of "children with special educational needs" and clarifying its essence.

The article deals with the problem of inequality of people through the prism of the right to education for children with special needs. The author defined legal basis and described theoretical aspects of the idea of inclusive education. The article summarizes the forms of "inclusion" of children in the regular life and school environment. The paper highlights the main ways of implementation of this idea, arising problems in the process of it and possible solutions.

At the present stage of preschool education development, the use of traditional corrective speech therapy methods to eliminate violations of sound pronunciation in children is insufficient. It is necessary to develop and introduce into practice innovative methods and technologies of speech therapy, which will increase the effectiveness of providing help for children with disabilities. That is why our study is rather relevant. The aim of the work is the scientific justification, development, testing and evaluation of the effectiveness of the complex of visual aids for the formation of pronunciation skills in preschool children with speech impairments. The authors rely on the position of L. S. Vygotsky on the social conditioning of abnormal and normal development. The article summarizes scientific information on the problem of the formation of sound pronunciation during normal development, and describes the specific features of the pronouncing side of speech in children with special educational needs. The authors studied the condition of sound pronunciation and found the qualitative uniqueness of the language phonetic means in preschool children with various speech impairments. Based on a theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign works on the identified issues, they developed a technology for using visual aids in the formation of pronunciation skills in preschool children with speech impairments and showed the opportunity of using visual aids at different stages of the work for teaching preschool children with speech impairments to pronounce sounds correctly. The use of this complex helps to increase the motivation of children to perform tasks, optimize the development of articulatory and fine motor skills, introduce sounds into syllables, words and keep pronunciation skills in independent speech of preschool children. The presented results of the control experiment proved the effectiveness of the correctional and pedagogical work.

The article discusses the method of art therapy in working with children with special educational needs. The main directions of art therapy, their goals and objectives, features of use in social work are analyzed.