KRET Y. Correction of psychophysical development of the deaf children of the elder preschool age.

The results of the correction of the deaf children's psychophysical development at the age of 5-6 years by means of articulation and finger gymnastics combined with movement and speech games are represented in this work. It has been defined that deaf children of a preschool age fall behind of their hearing coevals in the level of their cognitive activity's development and psychomotion functions. They lag behind in main anthropomethric indexes (weight, height, the volume of a thorax, vital capacity of lungs). The corrective and educational work has been based on the implementation of special methods of Teaching - wide usage of all the system of saved analyrators aimed on the compensation of the deafness results. Speech maintenance of a corrective process has been built on the wide usage of the visual components, on the simplification of a vocabulary and grammar forms of the studying material account. In the process of the experimental teaching of the deaf children it has been proved that optimal correla tion of the articulation exercises and finger gymnastics combined with movement and speech games allow to minimize the difference in the level of psychomotion functions development and cognitive activity. Key words: psychophysical development, psychomotions, cognitive activity, a correction, a finger and articulation gymnastics.