Chobanian A. Psychological support children of mentally retarded children of the senior preschool age

Organizational and psychological conditions of forming of social readiness of older preschool children with intellectual development disorders to study at school are determined. The program of psychological support for formation of social readiness of senior preschoolers with impairments of moderate degree of intellectual development to study at school is substantiated, experimentally developed. The program of psychological support for older preschool children with mental retardation of mild and moderate severity was developed taking into account the nature and content of the concept of psychological support, which provides the opportunity to enter the educational space and provides for the gradual formation of components of social readiness of older preschool children with mental retardation of mild and moderate severity. The program has four blocks: organizational, initial, practical, final. The blocks are named in accordance with the stages of implementation of psychological support reflected in the theoretical model: the first organizational block is diagnostic in nature; the primary purpose of the initial block of the program is to form a positive emotional contact with older preschool children; the practical unit consisted of three groups: «I hear and react», «I see and repeat», «First together, then I – independently», each of which contains a series of separate exercises (in the third block special attention was paid to the adequate nature of communication and interaction of an adult with a child , the creation of a developing environment and the involvement of parents in the process of psychological support (the first module was implemented in parallel); the fourth - the final one envisaged the analysis of the results. Based on the analysis, comparison and comparison of data obtained during the re-diagnosis of the levels of social readiness levels of older preschool children with moderate intellectual developmental impairment at the ascertainment and control stages of the experiment, the conclusion was made about the presence of positive dynamics according to certain criteria of communicative criteria after experimental work.