Training students of speciality 016 "Special education" to form ideas about the environment in children with severe speech disorders

Abstract

The article highlights approaches to the search for new forms, methods and means of training specialists in correctional pedagogy in the context of the security situation in the country. The directions of training of future speech therapists in modern experience are revealed: theoretical and methodological foundations of professional training of correctional teachers; application of innovative teaching methods for the development of communicative competence of future speech therapists; conceptual foundations of training a speech therapist to work with young children in higher education institutions in the context of integration into the European educational space; integrative training of a specialist in the context of inclusion, reflective and evaluative activity in the context of integrative professional development.
The article describes the purpose, tasks and programme results of studying the educational component «Special Мethods of Teaching Subject Disciplines» of the educational and professional programme «Speech Therapy» of the second (master's) level of higher education at the Dragomanov Ukrainian State University. Оn the example of the topics «Psychological and Pedagogical Bases of Acquaintance with the Environment in Primary School for Children with Severe Speech Disorders», «Tasks and Content of Acquaintance of Children with the Environment», «Forms, Мethods and Techniques of Acquaintance of Children with Severe Speech Disorders with the Environment», «Acquaintance of Children with Social Environment», the peculiarities of professional training of future speech therapists to form ideas about the environment in children of this category are highlighted.
The research attention is drawn to the priority use of interactivetechnologies of situational modelling in working with students. The importance of using the method of role-playing games, «teaching by learning» and «immersion, living from the inside» technologies is emphasised. The attention of future speech therapists is focused on the classification of environmental components and methods of familiarisation with them, the importance of game activities with younger students, the effective use of methods of organising students' interaction and accumulation of social experience, which are implemented during the dialogue communication of students with severe speech impairments, which forms and supports joint learning activities.