Keyword: «preschool children with speech impairments»

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.