Khrystyna B. Psychological peculiarities of the development of prosodic speech component in preschool age children by means of vocal therapy.

The thesis is dedicated to the research problem of psychological features of preschoolers' speech prosodic component by means of vocal therapy. The key terms have been defined. The components of prosodic (rhythm, tempo, timber, intonation, logical stress, height, volume, speech breath and other) and also their interaction and identity with ways of expressivity in singing have been considered. The age and individual psychological features of preschoolers in the context of prosodic phenomenon have been revealed. We have submitted psychological aspects of using the vocal therapy methods for the development of preschool children's prosodic component of speech. According to the selected criteria (speech, personal, connotative) and indications (expression, activity, quality, emotional, cognitive, communicative, motivational, adaptive, sensitive) we have created and implemented into the preschool education practice the complex of psychological diagnostic methods of prosodic component of speech. The results of experimental research have been shown. We have identified the interconnections of elements of speech prosodic component and the interconnections of prosodic speech operations with preschoolers' individual psychological peculiarities (anxiety, self-assessment, communicativeness, temper features). The conceptual model of development of preschool children's speech prosodic component has been created. We have proved, developed and tested the vocal therapeutic psychotechnology of forming block of conceptual model, proved its effectiveness for the development of all the foregoing prosodic elements of speech.