Zolotariova T. Mediated correctional management of elementary students with cerebral palsy development

The dissertation research is devoted to the problem of interdisciplinary transfer and correctional management of general cognitive educational activities and skills improvement with elementary students with cerebral palsy in compiling simple arithmetic tasks, mediated by the content drawing skills development. The ability of elementary students with cerebral palsy in content drawing skills development, simple arithmetic tasks solving and composing, general cognitive educational activities and their interdisciplinary dynamic associations, from the point of their actual and potential development, are described. The criterias for the basic, intermediate, sufficient and advanced levels of content drawing skills development, solving and composing simple arithmetic tasks, as well as the congruence of the skills: the drawings are to be appropriate to the laws of composition, the arithmetic tasks solutions correspond to the needed type, the composed by the students’ tasks should match the proposed by the teacher tasks, the congruence of the proposed/composed by students’ arithmetic tasks to the drawings. Our methodology is a system of heuristic questions. The methodology considers elementary students with cerebral palsy to obtain a spectrum of intellectual development levels. The proposed methodology purposefully, consistently and in parallel stimulates the content drawing skills development, simple arithmetic tasks solving and composing skills and general cognitive educational activities improvement, contributes to a significant increase in development and simultaneous use of the mentioned academic skills, to adequate transfer of skills to new conditions, to identification and correction of their own mistakes, to intellectual development, as well as to successful social adaptation and integration of elementary students with cerebral palsy.