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.