Tykha E. Psychical development correction in the process of teaching junior pupils who are visually handicapped.

The processes of psychics development of the children who are severely visually impaired have been investigated at the dissertation and the factors which condition the formation of their psychics have been determined. The peculiarities of a defect , the ways of elaboration for its compensation have been analysed and the additional element of its structure has been proposed. It is a self-attitude of a child with limited visual abilities that is considered as a result of an interiarisational attitude of the nearest surrounding towards this child. For the first time it was proposed to apply the experimental-genetic method within the system of special residential schools that exclusively serve children with visual handicaps. Guided by basic theses of this method the necessity for combination of psychocorrection and learning techniques has been grounded. The researcher introduces a technological scheme of psychic activity correction of junior pupils who are taught at special residential schools for children with visual handicaps. The given dissertation demonstrates the practical application of this scheme on the example of planning a foreign language teaching process. Chains of tasks that form the technological scheme of psychic correctional teaching have been developed. Successfulness of the psychic correctional teaching was tested by comparison of objective quantitative and qualitative characteristics of personal and cognitive peculiarities of pupils activity. The methodological recommendations for psychologists, pedagogues and parents have been formulated on the basis of the conducted research . The recommendations are aimed at achieving harmonious development of junior pupils who are visually handicapped.