Keyword: «communication skills of children with mental retardation»

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in children with mental retardation, the communication sphere develops with a significant lag without purposeful care of an adult, the search for effective conditions for the development of the communicative skills of children with disabilities is a priority area of special education. The purpose of the article: theoretical and methodological analysis of researches on the development of children with mental retardation in context of inclusive education, presentation of the innovative project "Me, you, he, she are a friendly family". The article reveals the content of the innovation project. The project is aimed at developing the dialogue skills with peers and adults in pre-school children with mental retardation; providing in a pre-school educational organization such conditions that are aimed at developing the communicative activity of children with mental retardation in various activities; increase of teachers’ professional competence in preschool educational organization on a researched problem; establishment of cooperation between families of preschool children with mental retardation and parents of children with normal development. In the course of the project implementation it is supposed to use gaming, communicative technologies (conversation-dialogues, thematic festivals and entertainments, didactic and role-playing games, problem situations solving, fiction reading, reviewing albums with photographs, etc.) in work with preschool children; technologies used in the process of increasing the professional competence of pre-school educational organizations teachers (questionnaires, consultations, master classes, workshops, portfolio, teachers’ council, pedagogical round table, exhibition of psychological and educational literature for educators, etc.); technologies used in the process of increasing the pedagogical competence of parents (thematic parents' meetings, individual consultations, posting information for parents on the site of a kindergarten, creative competition, trainings, an exhibition of pedagogical literature for parents, etc.).