Keyword: «delay of mental development»

The article is devoted to the problem of studying in the national psychology of such a problem as the delay of mental development. The author analyzes the classification of the different authors, peculiarities of different variants of this deviations in children.

In the article in the theoretical and practical aspects there are considered modern approaches to the research of dysgraphia problems with younger schoolchildren with the delay of mental development and normal development. Revealed main theoretical theses and principles put in basis of logopedic diagnostics system aimed at identifying features of written speech of primary school children.

The article reports about the results of a work that was devoted to studying the characteristics of emotions development in senior preschoolers with mental retardation. The author presents data on the ability of these children to perceive and understand emotions, as well as verbalize emotional states and reveals some difficulties arising in distinguishing emotions based on expressive characters, transmitted with the help of facial expressions. The disadvantages of using vocabulary to indicate emotions are shown. It is reported about the social immaturity of children in connection with the underdevelopment of the ability to understand the causes of emotional states.

The article deals with the features of the development of visual and imaginative thinking of older preschool children with mental retardation, the methodological justification of correctional and developmental work is given.