Abstract
This paper describes the approaches to the formation of communicative skills of children with general speech underdevelopment. General speech underdevelopment is considered as a complex speech disorder when children with normacusis and initially safe intellect demonstrate late start of speech development, poor vocabulary, pronunciation defects. These symptoms indicate the systemic violation of all components of speech activity. When studying speech disorders in conjunction with other sides of mental development, the paper highlights the characteristics imposed by the insufficient speech activity on the development of phonemic awareness, memory. At the present stage of preschool education development, the socio-communicative development of children, and namely the formation of verbal communication has great importance. The author analyzed the theoretical study displayed that the violations of speech communication of preschool children impede their orientation in the world of peers, adults and the environment. It causes the underdevelopment of communicative skills that affects the child’s behavior, his activity in the process of different types of activities, and the unwillingness to communicate with peers and adults, as well as the abnormality of the speech function development. The author carried out the experiment to study the influence of corrective games and exercises on the formation of communicative skills of children with general speech underdevelopment. The paper presents the stages during which games and exercises different in learning content, children communicative activity, play activities and rules, organization and relationships of children, and the role of educator were offered to children. This issue is comprehensive.