Keyword: «neuropsychological approach»

Today, one of the urgent problems continues to be the level and state of health of the younger generation, especially for children and adolescents. There is a deterioration in physical development, a delay in speech development, the rapid growth of somatic, infectious, environmentally and socially caused diseases. Of great concern to medical workers, teachers, educators, and psychologists is the growing prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in preschool children, which makes the neuropsychological approach relevant to solving this problem.

The article describes the features of the formation of speech activity in ontogenesis in children of older preschool age in the norm and with general underdevelopment of speech of the III level. The results of a speech therapy examination of the development of speech activity in children of senior preschool age with general speech underdevelopment of the III level are described. A set of neuropsychological exercises to activate speech activity in older preschool children with general speech underdevelopment of level III is presented.

The article examines the role of the neuropsychological approach in the development of cognitive functions in children in preschool educational institutions. The paper presents the results of the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature. A neuropsychological approach is described, researchers and their positions are identified. The importance of the neuropsychological approach in the development of cognitive functions was also analyzed. Sample games and exercises for the develop-ment of cognitive functions in children were presented.