Keyword: «speech therapy diagnostics»

The article discusses the issues of formation and timely diagnosis of retelling skills of 5–6-year-old children with general speech underdevelopment (level III). Diagnostic tasks are given that allow us to assess the level of formation of retelling skills, as well as to identify the features of retelling preschool children. The results of the ascertaining stage of the experiment are presented.

The article discusses the results of experimental work aimed at determining the volume and qualitative uniqueness of the vocabulary of attributes in children aged 6–7 years with a diagnosis of mental development delay. The diagnostic program included three areas: examination of qualitative, relative and possessive adjectives, as well as testing the ability to select synonyms and antonyms. The obtained data indicate a significant lag in the development of the active vocabulary of attributes: no child reached a high level, more than half of the subjects showed average and low indicators. Persistent difficulties in word formation, poverty of semantic connections and a gap between word comprehension and their use in spontaneous speech were revealed. Based on the analysis, directions for speech therapy support are formulated, taking into account the specifics of the defect in MDD.