Keyword: «verbal means of communication»

The article deals with the question of the relationship between verbal and non-verbal means of communication in correcting severe speech disorders at various stages of speech therapy work. In modern speech therapy, the question of the correlation of additional means of communication is considered primarily for people with aphasic disorders, while pre-school speech therapy uses primarily verbal means of influence.

The article reflects the problem of the formation of children's dialogical speech, which remains one of the most relevant in the theory and practice of speech therapy, because speech performs communicative, cognitive, regulatory and other functions in the life of a child. The main and initial is the communicative function, i.e. the purpose of speech to be a means of communication. Dialogic speech in preschool children with general speech underdevelopment has features associated with the underdevelopment of verbal means of communication. A system of targeted techniques and effective methods of correctional and developmental work is proposed, which allows improving the quality of the dialogical form of speech communication in preschoolers with general speech underdevelopment.